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ROMUALD IAN LAKOWSKI
"Sir Thomas More and the Art of Dialogue"
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In this study I present an analysis of the structures of four works by Sir Thomas More: The History of Richard III, the 'Dialogue of Counsel' in Book I of Utopia, The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and The Dialogue of Comfort in Tribulation. My basic thesis is that Thomas More was a superb literary artist and a master of the art of literary dialogue, and that beneath the often apparently rambling and digressive surface of each of these literary works, there is a 'deep structure' that is highly coherent and even tightly organised. I also show that More's use of dialogue in each of the three dialogues is genuinely dialectical---that the individual speakers in the three literary dialogues make a genuine contribution to the development of the argument---and that the movement from speaker to speaker in the History of Richard III is also genuinely dialectical---anticipating the art of the three later dialogues. To this end I have provided an interpretive reading/analysis of each of the works, focussing on More's "art of dialogue" in the passages of direct and indirect speech in Richard III, and in the dialogues between Hythloday and Persona More in Book I of Utopia, between Chancellor More and the Messenger in the Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and between Vincent and Anthony in the Dialogue of Comfort. The thesis also includes two major appendices: Appendix A consisting of about two thousand items of More scholarship organised according to topic, and Appendix B containing detailed analytical summaries of the four works. (The Bibliography is quite comprehensive covering all of More's works and also background studies and biographies.) The two appendices are provided both as part of my argument and as tools for further research.
| 1953 1974 1974 1975 1977 1978 1979--82 1985 1987--92 1987--93 |
Born, Glasgow, Scotland B.Sc., (Honours) Mathematics, UBC Summer Student Programmer, Triumf, UBC Graduate Studies in Physics, UBC, Withdrew B.A., History, UBC M.A., Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto Programmer Analyst: Oceanography, UBC M.A., English, UBC Part-time Computer Consultant, Computing Centre, UBC Part-time Free-lance Computer Analyst and Editor, Psychology, English and History, UBC |
| 1974--75 1977 1978 1985 |
U.B.C. Open Fellowship Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Scholarship Ontario Graduate Scholarship U.B.C. Summer Fellowship |
| Field of Study: Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature | |
| Tudor Intellectual History (HIST 521) Malory's Morte Darthur Donne's Prose Works Seventeenth Century Prose Spenser's Poetry Sixteenth Century Non-Dramatic Ben Jonson's Drama Shakespeare's History Plays Defoe's Novels Old English (ENGL 340) Rhetoric (Three Courses) Composition Studies Research Methods Chaucer Old English Epic (AUDIT) |
P.G. Stanwood/M. Tolmie M.A. Manzalaoui P.G. Stanwood P.G. Stanwood P.G. Stanwood R. Jonson A. Dawson J.H. Kaplan D. Macaree F.H. Whitman N. Johnson A. Lunsford H.J. Rosengarten J.K. Kealy G.R. Wieland |
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