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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... medieval works is frequently condemned as a great weakness . Edmond Faral , the editor of these medieval treatises , wrote very disapprovingly of this aspect of them : ' Les hommes du moyen âge . . . ont perdu de vue les individus pour ...
... medieval works is frequently condemned as a great weakness . Edmond Faral , the editor of these medieval treatises , wrote very disapprovingly of this aspect of them : ' Les hommes du moyen âge . . . ont perdu de vue les individus pour ...
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... medieval mind , constantly seeking the universal behind the particular . In this respect the individual was of interest solely as a manifestation of a much wider phenomenon . There had to be a general truth , revealed in a reflection of ...
... medieval mind , constantly seeking the universal behind the particular . In this respect the individual was of interest solely as a manifestation of a much wider phenomenon . There had to be a general truth , revealed in a reflection of ...
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... medieval rhetorical training involved from the literary point of view . These figures of speech , grouped together under the heading ornatus facilis , concerned principally the order and presentation of words . This led to the ornatus ...
... medieval rhetorical training involved from the literary point of view . These figures of speech , grouped together under the heading ornatus facilis , concerned principally the order and presentation of words . This led to the ornatus ...
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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