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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... numerous examples of stylistic details of the type defined in Book IV of the Rhetorica ad Herennium . Relatively little information has survived concerning the teaching and lecturing methods of the Middle Ages , but the accounts given ...
... numerous examples of stylistic details of the type defined in Book IV of the Rhetorica ad Herennium . Relatively little information has survived concerning the teaching and lecturing methods of the Middle Ages , but the accounts given ...
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... numerous aspects , concentrating on some at the expense of others . The change in this instance was owed , doubtless , to the moralising , didactic spirit of the Church , according to which the individual had to symbolise something ...
... numerous aspects , concentrating on some at the expense of others . The change in this instance was owed , doubtless , to the moralising , didactic spirit of the Church , according to which the individual had to symbolise something ...
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... Numerous other figures of speech were in use by writers in the vernacular , and I am not embarking here on a comprehensive account of them . Of the twenty - five figures described by Vinsauf in his De Coloribus Rhetoricis I have ...
... Numerous other figures of speech were in use by writers in the vernacular , and I am not embarking here on a comprehensive account of them . Of the twenty - five figures described by Vinsauf in his De Coloribus Rhetoricis I have ...
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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