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Punctual Relations: Thomas Browne’s Rhetorical Reclamations

Studies in philology, 2018-06, Vol.115 (3), p.598-614 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018 Studies in Philology, Incorporated ;Copyright © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press. ;COPYRIGHT 2018 University of North Carolina Press ;Copyright The University of North Carolina Press Summer 2018 ;ISSN: 0039-3738 ;ISSN: 1543-0383 ;EISSN: 1543-0383 ;DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0022

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Title:
Punctual Relations: Thomas Browne’s Rhetorical Reclamations
Author: Preston, Claire
Subjects: 1600-1699 ; Attitudes ; Authors ; Browne, Sir Thomas ; Browne, Thomas (English physician) ; Browne, Thomas, -- Sir ; Browne, Thomas, Sir (1605-1682) ; Collecting ; Criticism and interpretation ; Early modern period ; Early modern, 1500-1700 ; eclecticism ; Ekphrasis ; Encyclopedias and dictionaries in literature ; English language ; English Literature ; Historical text analysis ; Knowledge ; Meronymy ; Musaeum Clausum ; Musæum Clausum ; prose ; Rhetoric ; Rhetorical figures ; Rhetorical Strategy ; rhetorical technique ; Semantic relations ; Seventeenth Century ; Writers
Is Part Of: Studies in philology, 2018-06, Vol.115 (3), p.598-614
Description: This essay situates Thomas Browne’s late Musaeum Clausum, a fictive encycopedic catalogue or spoof catalogue, within the early modern culture of collecting. I argue that repeated rhetorical figures and effects in this text enforce a theme of absence, irrecoverability, and anonymity, and I suggest that Browne’s attitude here toward losses in learning is enervated and pessimistic in relation to the more typically optative mood of discovery and intellectual recuperation that characterizes much of his earlier writing. Browne relies on two rhetorical figures in particular—meronymy and ekphrasis—to structure his disquisition on loss within the framework of collecting. Browne’s late fascination with the fragmentary and dispersed indicates the belatedness and probable futility that he finds in the redemptive projects fashioned by Baconian investigators seeking to reassemble the knowledge that remains scattered throughout the world.
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0039-3738
ISSN: 1543-0383
EISSN: 1543-0383
DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0022
Source: ProQuest Central

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Punctual Relations: Thomas Browne’s Rhetorical Reclamations

2018 Studies in Philology, Incorporated ;Copyright © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press. ;COPYRIGHT 2018 University of North Carolina Press ;Copyright The University of North Carolina Press Summer 2018 ;ISSN: 0039-3738 ;ISSN: 1543-0383 ;EISSN: 1543-0383 ;DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0022

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