Wanton Words
Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16346262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madhavi Menon (University of Toronto, corresponding author), Karen Raber (0000-0003-4049-4458) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 107-109 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v39i4.8928 |
| OpenAlex | W4298853329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex often transgressive sex in the same instance that they speak about the workings of language. While other studies of rhetoric have confined their analyses to local questions of interpretive interest, Menon introduces rhetoric into the largely medico-juridical realm of studies on Renaissance sexuality. In doing so, she suggests that rhetoric allows us to think through the erotics of language in ways that pay most attention to the frisson of English Renaissance drama. Sustained deconstructive parsings of tropes metaphor, metonymy, allegory, catechresis, and more enables their wantonness to emerge in subjects usually considered unrelated to rhetoric: race in Othello, colonialism in The Tempest, tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, and cowardice in The Roaring Girl
Art · Art history · Drama · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Literature · Rhetoric · Sociology · The Renaissance · Gender Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |