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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... field of advertising , which after all is concerned above all with the art of persuasion.1 ( Rhetoric can also be the art of dissuasion , particularly in France , cf. the métro advertisement : Jamais plus de deux litres de vin par jour ) ...
... field of advertising , which after all is concerned above all with the art of persuasion.1 ( Rhetoric can also be the art of dissuasion , particularly in France , cf. the métro advertisement : Jamais plus de deux litres de vin par jour ) ...
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... field of administration supplied models and letters for official documents , and in the field of literature various characteristic themes . As a result , the medieval writer was interested not so much 1 E. Mâle , op . cit . , p . 29 . 2 ...
... field of administration supplied models and letters for official documents , and in the field of literature various characteristic themes . As a result , the medieval writer was interested not so much 1 E. Mâle , op . cit . , p . 29 . 2 ...
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... field'.4 If this is so , it seems to me that in at least one important respect the old tradition was superior to the new one , for the object of rhetoric was to pro- vide a training for writers , whereas stylistics provides a training ...
... field'.4 If this is so , it seems to me that in at least one important respect the old tradition was superior to the new one , for the object of rhetoric was to pro- vide a training for writers , whereas stylistics provides a training ...
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according AGES JOHN FOX allegory apostrophising 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 Racine's Rhetoric ratiocinatio Renaissance Rhetorica ad Herennium rhetorical tradition rhyme Rutebeuf Seconde Rhétorique self-interrogation sixteenth Souci style subjectio themes Théophile TRADITION IN FRENCH Trouvères twelfth century UNIVERSITY OF EXETER vernacular literature vobis words writers