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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... give a misleading impression of an all - pervading doctrine that left writers no scope for the exercise of their own ... gives lengthy stylised descriptions of the physical and mental characteristics of different types of persons ...
... give a misleading impression of an all - pervading doctrine that left writers no scope for the exercise of their own ... gives lengthy stylised descriptions of the physical and mental characteristics of different types of persons ...
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... give the better of the two words straightaway and have done with it ? —by pointing out that this is a matter of emphasis . The thought is made more striking when presented in this way.3 These originally oratorical devices were exploited ...
... give the better of the two words straightaway and have done with it ? —by pointing out that this is a matter of emphasis . The thought is made more striking when presented in this way.3 These originally oratorical devices were exploited ...
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... give rhetoric a new lease of life . Meantime , in certain basic characteristics of French literature , the influence of the old rhetorical tradition can clearly be seen . A fundamental difference between English and French writers is ...
... give rhetoric a new lease of life . Meantime , in certain basic characteristics of French literature , the influence of the old rhetorical tradition can clearly be seen . A fundamental difference between English and French writers is ...
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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