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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... expression of general truths on human nature . Though this attitude did not altogether disappear even in the later Middle Ages , we find that allegory , towards the end of the period , was frequently directed towards the analysis of the ...
... expression of general truths on human nature . Though this attitude did not altogether disappear even in the later Middle Ages , we find that allegory , towards the end of the period , was frequently directed towards the analysis of the ...
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... expression enjoyed by poets in this country has made English poetry far more imaginative and individualistic than its French counterpart , but it is not all loss . French poetry throughout the ages remains urbane and civilised , a close ...
... expression enjoyed by poets in this country has made English poetry far more imaginative and individualistic than its French counterpart , but it is not all loss . French poetry throughout the ages remains urbane and civilised , a close ...
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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