Ethos and the historical More in the letter to Brixius
This essay reconsiders More's letter to Brixius. It uncovers early modern understandings of self-fashioning/ethos and epistolary conventions of the period, and with these contexts, it rereads More's self-presentation or ethos-development in the letter. The essay argues that More's eth...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
[2019]
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Moreana
Year: 2019, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 176-189 |
Further subjects: | B
Anger
B historical Thomas More B Rhétorique B image de soi B éthos B Brixius B humanist letters / epistles B Lettre à Germain de Brie B Germain de Brie B Thomas More historique B Rhetoric B Letter to Brixius B self-fashioning B lettres humanistes B Colère B Thomas More B Ethos |
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Summary: | This essay reconsiders More's letter to Brixius. It uncovers early modern understandings of self-fashioning/ethos and epistolary conventions of the period, and with these contexts, it rereads More's self-presentation or ethos-development in the letter. The essay argues that More's ethos in the letter highlights an authentic facet of himself and, thereby, gives us a glimpse of the historical More who, in the Brixius moment, is angry, but not excessively or habitually, as has sometimes been claimed. |
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ISSN: | 2398-4961 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Moreana
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/more.2019.0060 |