Abraham Fraunce, 'The Shepherds' Logic' and Other Dialectical Writings
Modern Humanities Research Association
ISBN13:
9781781881248
$25.26
Abraham Fraunces The Shepherds Logic (c. 1585) is one of the first English adaptations of Petrus Ramuss Dialecticae libri duo (1556). Preserved in a manuscript also containing two shorter essays on Ramist dialectic, the work was later modified and enlarged for publication as The Lawyers Logic (1588). But Fraunces substantial and almost exclusive use of Edmund Spensers The Shepherds Calendar (1579) as the source for practical examples makes the manuscript treatise a unique document revealing the influence of the Ramist reform of the arts of discourse on the new literary elite led by Philip Sidney and Gabriel Harvey. This is the first published critical edition of Fraunces early treatise and the two companion essays. It presents the texts in modernized spelling, traces their sources and contexts, and draws out their literary and philosophical implications. It also includes relevant excerpts from The Lawyers Logic, such as Fraunces quantitative-verse translation of Virgils Second Eclogue and its Ramist analysis, and a full catalogue of the quotations from Spensers Calendar. As a whole, this edition sees Fraunces pastoral logic as a first-hand testimony showing how scholarly training in the Renaissance arts of discourse enlightened the composition and interpretation of poetic texts.
- | Author: Zenón Luis-Martínez, Zenón Luis-Martínez
- | Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
- | Publication Date: Apr 29, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 228 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1781881243
- | ISBN-13: 9781781881248
- Author:
- Zenón Luis-Martínez, Zenón Luis-Martínez
- Publisher:
- Modern Humanities Research Association
- Publication Date:
- Apr 29, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 228 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1781881243
- ISBN-13:
- 9781781881248