Tina Skouen

"Guest Editor's Introduction: A Moment for Kairos" i Philosophy & Rhetoric (Penn State University Press), 56:3-4 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/923199

"Rereading Crashaw's Emblem 'To the Countess of Denbigh (1652)'", i Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press), 63:1 https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2025.a952060 

"Kairos, or Figures of Instant Conversion in Crashaw’s Poem "To the Countess of Denbigh'" i Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature, red. Bruce Barnhart og Marit Grøtta (Routledge, 2024)

"Figures of Conversion" "Margaret Cavendish's Melancholy Identity" (med Henriette Kolle), i World-Making Renaissance Women, red. P. Hammons and B. Siegfried (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 10.1017/9781108923385.018 Anmeldt i Year's Work in English Studies 102:1 2023 (Oxford UP)

"Brian Cox and the New Enlightenment," Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 12 June 2019 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0002

The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature (New York: Routledge, 2018, paperback 2019). Anmeldt i Modern Philology ; Renaissance Studies ; Renaissance Quarterly ; The Year's Work in English Studies 99:1, 2020 (Oxford UP). Se også Intervju ; Routledge-hjemmeside

Leksikonartikkel om det engelske vitenskapsakademiet, Royal Society

Harde fakta og vill spekulasjon i verdens eldste vitenskapelige tidsskrift, Aftenposten Viten 13.01.15 - artikkel på papir og nett om 350års-jubileet til Philosophical Transactions

"Ciceronian Oratory and the Idea of Civilization in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness," The Conradian 40:1 (Spring 2015)

Omtalt i The Year's Work in English Studies 96:1, 2017 (Oxford UP)

Rhetoric & The Early Royal Society: A Sourcebook, red. Tina Skouen og Ryan J. Stark (Brill, 2014)

Margaret Cavendish and the Stigma of Haste, Studies in Philology 111:3 (Summer 2014), 547-570, (University of North Carolina Press)

Omtalt i The Year's Work in English Studies 95:1, 2016 (Oxford UP) 

Den store omdømmekampen, Aftenposten Viten 06.05.14 - artikkel på papir og nett om Royal Society, vitenskap og retorikk

Science versus Rhetoric? Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667) Reconsidered, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 29:1 (2011), 23-52.

Kampen mot hastverket, Prosa 03/10 og Aftenposten 20.05.10.

The Rhetoric of Passion in Donne’s Holy Sonnets, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 27:2 (2009), 159-188.

Omtalt i The Year's Work in English Studies 90:1, 2011 (Oxford  UP)

Passion and Persuasion: John Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther (1687), Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009. 

Anmeldelse (Christopher Coffman, Boston University)

For vitenskap, mot veltalenhet? Thomas Sprats History of the Royal Society of London, Rhetorica Scandinavica 47 (2008), 9-29.

The Vocal Wit of John Dryden, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 24:4 (2006), 371-402.

Omtalt i The Year's Work in English Studies 87:1 2008 (Oxford UP)

• Skouen, Tina (2025). Rereading Crashaw's opportune emblem "To the Countess of Denbigh (1652)". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. ISSN 0039-3657. 63(1), s. 53–81. doi: 10.1353/sel.2025.a952060. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article challenges the standing interpretation of Richard Crashaw's poem "To the Countess of Denbigh" (1652) by reviewing its literary and historical backgrounds. Instead of regarding the poem primarily as an attempt to convert the assumed patron, I treat it as an emblem that turns its very occasion—the kairos—into its major theme. The article raises new questions about the poem's purpose by considering the importance of the historical figure Susan Feilding, Countess of Denbigh (1591?–1655). Reading her letters alongside Crashaw's poem for the first time reveals how both writers employ powerful rhetoric to convert their addressees.

• Skouen, Tina (2024). A Moment for Kairos. Guest Editor's Introduction. Philosophy & Rhetoric. ISSN 0031-8213. 56(3-4), s. 267–273. doi: 10.5325/philrhet.56.3-4.0267. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  How does one describe a crucial moment, a moment that calls for action? What kinds of time are opened, disclosed, or foreclosed in such moments? This section explores a concept that has a long history in rhetoric and philosophy, but which is urgently called for now, in a time that many think of as critical, catastrophic, or even apocalyptic. Changes in the economy, climate, and the state of our democracies demand urgent attention, and while people disagree on the course to be taken, there is a sense that—this is it!—now is the time. The concept of kairos (from ancient Greek καιρός) comprises both a critical time and a perfect opportunity; it is the right moment to act, even though the word could also be interpreted in a more general sense as referring to the issue of right timing. Considered as “one of the most untranslatable of Greek words,” kairos is...

• Skouen, Tina (2023). Kairos, or Figures of Instant Conversion in Crashaw’s Poem "To the Countess of Denbigh". I Grøtta, Marit & Barnhart, Bruce Evan (Red.), Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature. Routledge. ISSN 9781032350240. doi: 10.4324/9781003328599-14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter discusses one of the master concepts in the Western classical tradition, kairos (“the opportune moment”), and interrogates its function in a poem dating from the Long Reformation, a period that thrived on critical moments of decision and conversion. Richard Crashaw’s poem, written in the 1640s, presents its Christian readers with an opportunity for instant change and renewal. It does so in a manner that is both fascinating and disturbing, and that presents a perfect opportunity for rethinking the complex entanglement of anticipation and hesitation at work in kairos. The chapter experiments with two different readings, one that explores the early modern period’s obsession with time and occasion, and another that brings the poet’s attempts at persuasion into dialogue with Martin Heidegger’s rhetoric of resolution. This reading of Crashaw’s rich but under-researched poem provides a new perspective on Heidegger’s Augenblick or moment of vision. Taken together, the early modern poet and the modern philosopher challenge and expand our long-standing notions of kairos.

• Skouen, Tina & Kolle, Henriette Marie (2021). Margaret Cavendish's Melancholy Identity: Gender and the Evolution of a Genre. I Hammons, Pamela S. & Siegfried, Brandie R. (Red.), World-Making Renaissance Women: Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108831154. s. 272–87. doi: 10.1017/9781108923385.018. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  When writers in the first half of the seventeenth century wanted to describe what possessed them while composing their prose or poems, they would typically name a melancholy muse or temperament. The best-known illustration of this creative impulse was the female figure of Melancholia portrayed in Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia 1 (1514), described in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) as “a sad woman leaning on her arme with fixed lookes, … halfe mad, … and yet of a deepe reach, excellent apprehension, judicious, wise and witty.” The poets and scholars who professed that they could identify with her somber, preoccupied bearing would immediately be recognized by their audiences if not as geniuses, then as pretending toward such a status. Although the familiar figure of Melancholia was female, neither Burton nor any of the other theorists on the subject imagined there could be any women writers identifying with the forms of introspective intellectualism and inventiveness that she represented.

• Skouen, Tina (2019). Brian Cox and the new enlightenment. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. ISSN 0035-9149. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2019.0002. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper studies the Royal Society's public rhetoric of science by analysing Brian Cox, whose rise to science prominence corresponded with his period as a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2005 to 2013. The first study, to my knowledge, to address this major figure in popular science, the paper analyses his goals and methods in light of the ‘new Enlightenment’ that was advocated by the Society's then President, Paul Nurse, in 2012. Like the founders of this national science academy in the 1660s, Nurse hailed Francis Bacon as a lodestar when it comes to inspiring awe and respect of rationality and of what science can do both in Britain and globally. Appointed as the Society's first Professor for Public Engagement in Science in 2015, Cox has worked to achieve the Society's goals of creating enthusiasm and ‘demonstrating the value of science to everyone’. He has also been instrumental in recruiting more young people to pursue a career in science. Through rhetorical analysis of a lecture video and other online material, the paper identifies some key features in his style of performance, especially regarding his methods of producing awe and wonder.

• Skouen, Tina (2018). Note on stoic allusions in a letter by Robert Persons, 12 February 1585. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 65(4), s. 490–494. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjy157. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2015). Ciceronian Myth in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Conradian. ISSN 0951-2314. s. 1–6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina & Stark, Ryan J. (2014). Rhetoric and The Early Royal Society: An Introduction. I Skouen, Tina & Stark, Ryan J. (Red.), Rhetoric and The Early Royal Society: A Sourcebook. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004283695. doi: 10.1163/9789004283701_002. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.

• Skouen, Tina (2014). Science versus Rhetoric? Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) Reconsidered (reprint). I Skouen, Tina & Stark, Ryan J. (Red.), Rhetoric and The Early Royal Society: A Sourcebook. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004283695. doi: 10.1163/9789004283701_010. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.

• Skouen, Tina (2014). Margaret Cavendish and the Stigma of Haste. Studies in Philology. ISSN 0039-3738. 111(3), s. 547–570. doi: 10.1353/sip.2014.0016. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2011). Correction to Commentary on Whitney’s Emblem 185. Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 58(2), s. 218–219. doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjr064. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2011). Science versus Rhetoric? Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667). Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. ISSN 0734-8584. 29(1), s. 23–52. doi: 10.1525/rh.2011.29.1.23. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2009). The Rhetoric of Passion in Donne's Holy Sonnets. Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. ISSN 0734-8584. 27(2), s. 159–188. doi: 10.1525/RH.2009.27.2.159. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In his Holy Sonnets, the English Renaissance poet and divine John Donne (1572–1631) gives voice to powerful emotional outbursts. Previous critics have mostly been concerned with the religious context and theological positions of the sonnets. This study rather attempts to isolate the psychological context of the poems by relating them to the early modern discourse on the passions. In order to grasp the pathos of Donne's Holy Sonnets, we need to consider the advice on how to handle violent emotion in such treatises as Thomas Wright's The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604) and Edward Reynolds's A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man (1640).

• Skouen, Tina (2008). For vitenskap, mot veltalenhet? Thomas Sprats History of the Royal Society of London (1667). Rhetorica Scandinavica. ISSN 1397-0534. 47, s. 9–29. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2008). Klassikerintro, Thomas Sprats History of the Royal Society of London (1667). Rhetorica Scandinavica. ISSN 1397-0534. 48, s. 7–10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  En oversettelse (fra engelsk til norsk) av utdrag fra Thomas Sprats History of the Royal Society (1667) følger etter introduksjonen (side 7-10) på side 11-16.

• Skouen, Tina (2007). "What I desire the reader should know concerning me." John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (1687). I Mehtonen, Päivi (Red.), Illuminating Darkness: Approaches to Obscurity and Nothingness in Literature. Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. ISSN 9789514110177. s. 65–81. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2007). Telling Silence in Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther (1687). Notes and Queries. ISSN 0029-3970. 54(4). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2006). The Vocal Wit of John Dryden. Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. ISSN 0734-8584. 24(4), s. 371–402. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The English poet-critic John Dryden (1631-1700) took a keen interest in refining the mother tongue. As a literary critic, he was particularly concerned with the contrast between the sound of the vernacular and that of Latin. This study establishes a connection between Dryden’s observations on sound and the recommendations concerning elocution found in such seventeenth-century rhetorics as Some Instructions Concerning the Art of Oratory (1659) by Obadiah Walker. In order to appreciate Dryden’s use of sound in his own poems, I argue that one should also take into account the phonetic theory provided by contemporary grammars. The study thus pays tribute to the fact that in the age of Dryden the concerns of rhetoric and grammar were closely interwoven.

• Skouen, Tina (2003). Konferanserapport fra NNRHs anden konference i Helsinki, august 2002. Rhetorica Scandinavica. ISSN 1397-0534. 25, s. 71–74. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (1999). Introduksjon. I Skouen, Tina (Red.), Den trygge byen. Kriminalitetsforebyggende planlegging. Norsk Form, Oslo. ISSN 9788245200218. s. 9–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Skouen, Tina (2017). The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature. Routledge. ISBN 9781472488053. 288 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina & Stark, Ryan J. (2014). Rhetoric and The Early Royal Society: A Sourcebook. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9789004283695. 300 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Royal Society’s establishment in 1660 signaled a new beginning for the rhetoric of science, mainly because the organization’s founders advocated a modern plain style for scientific communication. Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society aims to initiate fresh debates about this watershed event in the history of rhetoric and science. In the last twenty years, scholars in numerous disciplines have produced significant work, ranging from theoretical essays to case studies of founding members such as Wilkins, Hooke and Boyle. This is the first book to collect in one volume the key contributions. The newly written introduction by editors Skouen and Stark places the reprinted essays into perspective by evaluating the Society’s pioneering role in shaping modern scholarly communication.

• Skouen, Tina (2009). Passion and Persuasion: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (1687). VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG. ISBN 9783639124903. 276 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Skouen, Tina (2025). "Ideas of Man in Kepler’s rhetoric of science". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper studies the prefatory materials in Johannes Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Secret of the Universe, 1596; 1621), claiming that the scientific author is proposing new ideas about Man that shake the foundations of humanist education. Why not put mathematics and astronomy first, as ideal – “civilized” and “honorable” – recreations “for the human mind”? The Creator himself would not deny “the mind of Man, the lord of all Nature, made in his own image” such delight, the astronomer argues. A former teacher of rhetoric as well as mathematics, Kepler both builds upon and departs from Cicero and Quintilian, furthering a new public rhetoric of science.

• Skouen, Tina (2025). Quintilian and the New Sciences. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2024). Forfatteren som fantasifigur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2024). Kairos - en radikal "nå"-tid (om Antonio Negri). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2023). Kairos. I Grøtta, Marit & Barnhart, Bruce Evan (Red.), Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature. Routledge. ISSN 9781032350240. doi: 10.4324/9781003328599-14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Both kairos and human time perception are inextricably bound up with the present, which – as Saint Augustine commented – is scattered into tiny fragments. Kairos may well be the temporal concept we need for productively grasping the slender and shifting possibilities of the present. In classical and Renaissance rhetoric, kairos comprises both the opportunity for speaking and the speaker’s sense of right timing. Kairos can also be seen as the tipping point of an increasingly precarious situation, as with a momentous social or political uprising. The work of Jean-Luc Nancy or Catherine Malabou is also relevant to understanding kairos more broadly as a concept that can open up to more discussions of the temporal relations between predictability and unpredictability, by calling attention to the “imminence of existence” that allows for random accidents, events, and encounters to happen.

• Skouen, Tina (2023). Den ekte Marechera. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2020). Anne Fastrup og Knut Ove Eliassen (red.): Europæisk litteratur 1500-1800. Bind 3: Samfundet: Fra hoffet til byen. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift. ISSN 0809-2044. 1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2017). Kairos and Conversion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2017). Royal Society. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2015). Harde fakta og vill spekulasjon i verdens eldste vitenskapelige tidsskrift [Aftenposten Morgen papirutgave + Aftenposten Viten på nett]. Aftenposten Viten. ISSN 2464-3033. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2015). Henry Peacham's Variations on "Scripta non temere edenda," or "Writings not to be published rashly". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2015). Ciceronian Myth in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2014). Den store omdømmekampen: Historien om opprettelsen av det engelske vitenskapsakademiet, Royal Society, er en historie om hvordan naturvitenskapene vant over humaniora. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2014). Den store omdømmekampen http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Den-store-omdommekampen-7555917.html#.U8twwXY4Xcd. Aftenposten Viten. ISSN 2464-3033. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2014). Fra pop til partikkelfysikk: Fenomenet Brian Cox. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2013). Time for Action: The Royal Society¹s Campaign for Science. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2011). The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2011). The Temporal Aspect of Writing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Intervju om "Kampen mot hastverket" i litteraturen. [Radio]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Vitenskap versus retorikk: Historien om The Royal Society of London. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Vitenskap versus retorikk: Historien om The Royal Society of London. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Boka som objekt og opplevelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Om produktive forfattere – fra 1600-tallets England til Karl Ove Knausgård/The Value of Time in Early Modern/Contemporary Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Kampen mot hastverket. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2010). Essay: Kampen mot hastverksarbeidet. Om tidsromantikk i litteratur og kritikk. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X. s. 14–21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2008). This Wretched Body: Literature and Medicine in Early Modern England. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2008). Time and Aesthetic Value in Early Modern/Contemporary Literary Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2007). Brutal Beasts versus Rational Men: Key Distinctions in Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (London, 1667). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2007). The Rhetoric of Passion in Donne’s Holy Sonnets. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2005). The Vocal Wit of John Dryden (1631-1700). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the surprising effects of what may be described as the "vocal wit" of the English poet-critic John Dryden (1631-1700). I shall argue that in order to fully appreciate these effects, we shall have to refer not only to the rhetorical tradition, ranging from Quintilian to Obadiah Walker and Bernard Lamy, but also to developments in vernacular grammar, exemplified by Ben Jonson and John Wilkins. Dryden took a keen interest in the reforming of the English tongue. As a translator of Virgil, he attempted to make the vernacular version as smooth and well-sounding as the original. In the Dedication of the Aeneis (1697), Dryden describes the act of translation as a continuous struggle to overcome "the dead weight of our Mother-Tongue." However, even if Dryden the critic clearly resents the monosyllabic and consonantal quality of Germanic languages, Dryden the poet frequently makes use of precisely such consonant clusters as were considered hard to pronounce and producing a harsh sound. Why would the Poet Laureate subject his audience to such unpleasantness? Dryden's use of alliteration has received much critical attention. This paper suggests that Dryden's handling of the English consonants is governed by an overall didactic purpose. Presupposing that Dryden is not only set on delighting his readers, but wants to make them better men and women, perhaps a good strategy would be to increase the readers' sense of harmony and beauty by confronting them with exactly the opposite. Yet, there is also a political purpose. Even on the level of sound Dryden the royalist engages in a battle against the factious mentality of the Whigs and warns against the destabilizing threats of Puritan sects. Using as a critical tool Garrett Stewart's Reading Voices: Literature and the Phonotext (1990), the paper focusses on the aural and somatic--rather than the conceptual or mental--implications of Dryden's poetic practice. The emphasis on pronuntiatio in Dryden's theory of composition is furthermore hypothesised as being shaped in accordance with contemporary accounts of how various letters are pronounced. By providing thus some example of how aspects of the period's grammatical theory may be applied to the study of both rhetoric and poetry, the paper attempts to respond to the call which Linda C. Mitchell put forward in Grammar Wars (2001) for further enquiry into the relations between grammar and rhetoric, and between grammar and literature.

• Skouen, Tina (2003). "To the Reader" fra John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (1687)/"Of the Exordium" fra Bernard Lamy's The Art of Speaking (1676). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2003). What I want you to know about me: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (1687). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2003). Richard Nate: Wissenschaft und Literatur im England der frühen Neuzeit (München: Wilhelm Fink, 2001). Rhetorical Review : The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric. 1(2), s. 20–24. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2002). How English Became the Perfect Language. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2002). Sounding the Sense: Dryden's Unaffected Eloquence. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skouen, Tina (2007). John Dryden’s Eloquence: With special reference to The Hind and the Panther (1687). Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The doctoral dissertation confronts the prevailing idea that John Dryden (1631-1700) mainly adheres to a new rhetorical ideal that supposedly grew out of the new science. Did Dryden abandon the humanist rhetorical tradition? Dryden actually places pivotal emphasis on the poet’s power to teach, move and delight his audience. Focussing on Dryden’s longest poem, The Hind and the Panther, the dissertation argues that this text contains word play and visual images that do more to satirize than to celebrate the ideal of a plain style. Another purpose is to highlight Dryden’s substantial contribution to the early modern discourse on the passions. By emphasizing the commonplace features of Dryden’s rhetoric of passion and moderation in The Hind and the Panther, the dissertation plays down the tendency among previous critics to explain its images of spiritual conflict by reference to Dryden’s conversion. Already in his address to the reader of The Hind and the Panther, Dryden centres on the moral issue of how to restrain passion by reason. The same question also runs through Dryden’s criticism. Just as in the cases of the bodies natural and politic, the ‘body poetic’ must be subject to regulation and moderation. Dryden also tells the readers of The Hind and the Panther that they should look for him “in the body of the poem”. Following a general trend in early modern linguistics, Dryden thus draws attention to the material status of the written text and encourages his readers to treat the poem as a kind of performance. Challenging the prevailing view that Dryden’s concept of elocution applies only to the style of written discourse, Tina Skouen emphasizes the vital importance that Dryden attributes to aspects of sound and pronunciation. Dryden’s ‘vocal wit’ depends on the kind of distinctions that are made in classical rhetoric as well as in the vernacular grammar and rhetoric of Dryden’s age between un-eloquent beasts and eloquent men. Skouen proves that although The Hind and the Panther may seem chaotic at first reading, it is in fact governed by a clear rhetorical purpose.

• Skouen, Tina (1993). The rhetoric of meditation in Donne's Holy Sonnets. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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