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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... poet , 3 and numbers of his illustrations of figures of speech are taken from verse works . The actual entry of rhetoric into the field of poetry was , it has been claimed , owed to Ovid , 4 whose influence on the Romance vernaculars ...
... poet , 3 and numbers of his illustrations of figures of speech are taken from verse works . The actual entry of rhetoric into the field of poetry was , it has been claimed , owed to Ovid , 4 whose influence on the Romance vernaculars ...
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... poetry wrought from familiar themes , so that anyone else might hope he could do the same , yet struggle in vain when he tried the same kind of thing himself'.1 The repercussions of this conception were immense , producing ...
... poetry wrought from familiar themes , so that anyone else might hope he could do the same , yet struggle in vain when he tried the same kind of thing himself'.1 The repercussions of this conception were immense , producing ...
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... poetry , cannot of course be denied , and the greater freedom of expression enjoyed by poets in this country has made English poetry far more imaginative and individualistic than its French counterpart , but it is not all loss . French ...
... poetry , cannot of course be denied , and the greater freedom of expression enjoyed by poets in this country has made English poetry far more imaginative and individualistic than its French counterpart , but it is not all loss . French ...
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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