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Pathos as Communicative Strategy in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the strategies employed to trigger emotional responses in late-medieval dramatic texts from several Western European traditions, and juxtaposes these texts with artistic productions from the same areas, with an emphasis on Britain. The aim is to unravel the mechanisms through which pathos was produced and employed, mainly through the representation of pain and suffering, with mainly religious, but also political aims.
The novelty of the book resides in its specific linguistic perspective, which highlights the recurrent use of words, structures and dialogic patterns in drama to reinforce messages on the salvific value of suffering, in synergy with visual messages produced in the same cultural milieu.
The novelty of the book resides in its specific linguistic perspective, which highlights the recurrent use of words, structures and dialogic patterns in drama to reinforce messages on the salvific value of suffering, in synergy with visual messages produced in the same cultural milieu.
Gabriella Mazzon (1962), University of Innsbruck, is Professor of English Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on varieties of English, on the history of English negation, and on historical pragmatics and dialogue studies.
"Pathos in Late-Medieval Drama and Art identifies a âpathos formulaâ in the Middle Ages. Whilst there are certain techniques unique to specific genres and art-forms, which Mazzon pinpoints and critiques, she is persuasive in her argument that there is a unified attempt by the Church to use pathos as a communicative strategy, evident in both art and literature."
-Hetta Elizabeth Howes, City University of London, in Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019) pp. 180-181
-Hetta Elizabeth Howes, City University of London, in Emotions: History, Culture, Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2019) pp. 180-181
Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Words and Images in the late Middle Ages: the Social Functions of Drama and Art â1.1âIconography and Textual Studies â1.2âThe Development of Visual Narratives and New Images â1.3âThe Word Enacted â1.4ââModern Pietyâ and Identification: the Importance of Presence â1.5âWitnessing and Social Control: the Value of Memory 2 The Codification of the Public Display of Emotions â2.1âEmotions and Public Communication â2.2âLooking at the Language â2.3âReading the Visual Arts â2.4âTalking to the Congregacyoun â2.5âWriting Paths to Salvationâ123 3 Verbal and Visual Rhetoric: Lexicon and Grammar â3.1âThe Rhetoric of Parental Love â3.2âThe Rhetoric of Crime and Punishment â3.3âThe Rhetoric of Social Structure: the Powerful and the Rejected â3.4âThe Rhetoric of Pain and Memory â3.5âThe Rhetoric of Mourning and Glory 4 The Outward Gaze: Effective Audience Engagement Conclusion Bibliography Index
All interested in drama, art, language and socio-cultural history of the late Middle Ages in Western Europe, and especially in Britain, from advanced students to specialists.