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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... effect of Socrates ' ironical questioning of the rhetorician is to justify any one of the adjectives just mentioned : rhetoric emerges as a species of flattery , an empiricism , a knack , designed , like cookery , to please . Rhetoric ...
... effect of Socrates ' ironical questioning of the rhetorician is to justify any one of the adjectives just mentioned : rhetoric emerges as a species of flattery , an empiricism , a knack , designed , like cookery , to please . Rhetoric ...
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... effect of this attitude on secular literature was immense , and can clearly be seen in the most important French work to have been written before the Renaissance , the Roman de la Rose , the aim of which was to express general truths on ...
... effect of this attitude on secular literature was immense , and can clearly be seen in the most important French work to have been written before the Renaissance , the Roman de la Rose , the aim of which was to express general truths on ...
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... effects , primarily acoustic . The great importance attached to such effects may well have been owed to the close association of music and verse in those times , at least up to the later fourteenth century . 1 See E. Faral , op . cit ...
... effects , primarily acoustic . The great importance attached to such effects may well have been owed to the close association of music and verse in those times , at least up to the later fourteenth century . 1 See E. Faral , op . cit ...
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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