{"id":461,"date":"2018-03-01T01:29:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T01:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/?page_id=461"},"modified":"2018-03-01T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T01:31:00","slug":"2017-feminisms-and-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/2017-feminisms-and-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Feminisms and Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2018Talke Woorth the Hearynge\u2019: Historically Situating the Rhetorical Nature of Gossip in Early Modern Conduct Manuals&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/22366579_10214837270430442_5520785409930116021_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-434 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/22366579_10214837270430442_5520785409930116021_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/22366579_10214837270430442_5520785409930116021_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/22366579_10214837270430442_5520785409930116021_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/22366579_10214837270430442_5520785409930116021_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/22366579_10214837270430442_5520785409930116021_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This presentation draws on Jane Donawerth\u2019s (2012) work regarding conversational rhetorics and Jorg Bermann\u2019s theory of \u201cdiscreet indiscretion\u201d to consider sixteenth-century conduct texts. Works such as Juan Luis Vives\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">de Institutione Christiana Feminae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1523), Baldassare\u2019s Castiglione\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Book of the Courtier<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1528), and Samuel Rowland\u2019s \u201cTis Merry When Gossips Meet\u201d (1609) construct women\u2019s private discussions about the behavior of others, occurring typically within domestic spaces, as frivolous and dangerous; engaging in gossip threatens a woman\u2019s reputation. In particular, this paper considers the dialogic model which dominates <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Courtier <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as a form of gossip, as Castiglione deploys gossip as skilled speaking for the purpose of entertainment and education, while expressly admonishing women against doing the same. He thus recognizes that private storytelling about others\u2019 behavior may influence the public sphere. At the same time, these texts acknowledge the playful nature of gossip, marking the way in which playful sharing of privileged information in private spaces and at court may have public consequences beyond women&#8217;s immediate circles. By engaging in \u201crhetorical archeology\u201d to mark early constructions of gossip as a concept and its subsequent gendering, this presentation places gossip within a historical context that continues to color how women\u2019s means of information-gathering and dissemination are viewed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[gview file=&#8221;https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2018\/03\/FemRhet-2017.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2018Talke Woorth the Hearynge\u2019: Historically Situating the Rhetorical Nature of Gossip in Early Modern Conduct Manuals&#8221; This presentation draws on Jane Donawerth\u2019s (2012) work regarding conversational rhetorics and Jorg Bermann\u2019s theory of \u201cdiscreet indiscretion\u201d to consider sixteenth-century conduct texts. Works such as Juan Luis Vives\u2019 de Institutione Christiana Feminae (1523), Baldassare\u2019s Castiglione\u2019s The Book of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}