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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... oratorical in nature . It reflected important characteristics of the Greek and Roman ways of life . That rhetoric should in the course of time broaden its horizons and be applied to the written as well as the spoken language was an ...
... oratorical in nature . It reflected important characteristics of the Greek and Roman ways of life . That rhetoric should in the course of time broaden its horizons and be applied to the written as well as the spoken language was an ...
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... oratorical kind , the comment is added : " This figure is well adapted to a conversational style , and both by its stylistic grace and the anticipation of the reasons , holds the hearer's 1 Referred to by Dante in De vulgari eloquentia ...
... oratorical kind , the comment is added : " This figure is well adapted to a conversational style , and both by its stylistic grace and the anticipation of the reasons , holds the hearer's 1 Referred to by Dante in De vulgari eloquentia ...
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... oratorical devices were exploited very frequently in the Latin and vernacular literature of the Middle Ages and were not confined to any particular genre or level of style . From the literary point of view they served the same purpose ...
... oratorical devices were exploited very frequently in the Latin and vernacular literature of the Middle Ages and were not confined to any particular genre or level of style . From the literary point of view they served the same purpose ...
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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