The Rhetorical Tradition in French Literature of the Later Middle Ages: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Exeter on 17 January 1969 |
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... attitude , we should at least endeavour to understand it . The real point is that in those times there was little interest in the individual per se , and medieval scholarship tended to treat its sources in a cavalier fashion , seeking ...
... attitude , we should at least endeavour to understand it . The real point is that in those times there was little interest in the individual per se , and medieval scholarship tended to treat its sources in a cavalier fashion , seeking ...
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... attitude advocated by Horace in his Ars Poetica . The aim , he says , should be ' poetry wrought from familiar themes , so that anyone else might hope he could do the same , yet struggle in vain when he tried the same kind of thing ...
... attitude advocated by Horace in his Ars Poetica . The aim , he says , should be ' poetry wrought from familiar themes , so that anyone else might hope he could do the same , yet struggle in vain when he tried the same kind of thing ...
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... attitude was similar , however , the main principle being that the style had to be adapted to the subject matter . The difficulty of determining the attitude of writers in the vernacular is owed to the fact that they never discuss the ...
... attitude was similar , however , the main principle being that the style had to be adapted to the subject matter . The difficulty of determining the attitude of writers in the vernacular is owed to the fact that they never discuss the ...
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according AGES JOHN FOX allegory apostrophising Art de Seconde aspect attitude Ballade des Dames Ballade des Seigneurs basic Bellay Belle Heaulmière Book Century French Rhetoric chanson chanson de geste characteristic Charles d'Orléans Cicero Classical Rhetoric Coloribus Rhetoricis concerned congnois critical edition devices E. R. Curtius earlier French literature effect English Exeter on 17 expression Faral fifteenth century figures of speech FOX An Inaugural France François Villon Grands Rhétoriqueurs Guillaume de Lorris hommes important individual influence involved Jacques Coeur January 1969 UNIVERSITY Jean de Meun Langlois LATER MIDDLE AGES Latin Leo Spitzer literary composition Loeb Classical Library medieval theorists Moyen natural talent owed Paris Pléiade poem poet poète Poetica Poétique poetry point of view Quintilian Quoted ratiocinatio Renaissance Rhetorica ad Herennium rhetorical tradition rhyme Rutebeuf self-interrogation sixteenth Souci style subjectio themes Théophile TRADITION IN FRENCH Trouvères twelfth century UNIVERSITY OF EXETER vernacular literature vobis words writers