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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... relationship existing between the orator and the 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 ...
... relationship existing between the orator and the 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 ...
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... relationship that mattered was that between the theme and the poem rather than that between the poem and its author , whose own life and sentiments , even in apparently subjective themes , would remain in the background . The first ...
... relationship that mattered was that between the theme and the poem rather than that between the poem and its author , whose own life and sentiments , even in apparently subjective themes , would remain in the background . The first ...
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... relationship between generations , but between the sexes , from his point of view ( indeed from the French point of view generally ) a more significant and infinitely more fascinating relationship . A woman can make a man believe ...
... relationship between generations , but between the sexes , from his point of view ( indeed from the French point of view generally ) a more significant and infinitely more fascinating relationship . A woman can make a man believe ...
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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