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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... matter to assess is the extent to which writers in the vernacular observed the rhetorical classification of styles in three categories according to the nature of the subject : gravis , mediocris , extenuatus are the terms used by the ...
... matter to assess is the extent to which writers in the vernacular observed the rhetorical classification of styles in three categories according to the nature of the subject : gravis , mediocris , extenuatus are the terms used by the ...
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... matter of emphasis . The thought is made more striking when presented in this way.3 These originally oratorical devices were exploited very frequently in the Latin and vernacular literature of the Middle Ages and were not confined to ...
... matter of emphasis . The thought is made more striking when presented in this way.3 These originally oratorical devices were exploited very frequently in the Latin and vernacular literature of the Middle Ages and were not confined to ...
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... matter to mere mannerisms . Rhetoric must never be allowed to foster the belief that cleverness with words and sounds is the one essential quality for the writer . Rhetoric's true place is as a servant , not as a master . When the roles ...
... matter to mere mannerisms . Rhetoric must never be allowed to foster the belief that cleverness with words and sounds is the one essential quality for the writer . Rhetoric's true place is as a servant , not as a master . When the roles ...
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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