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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... repetition , a simple enough matter , no doubt , but the Latin theorists and their medieval descendants maintained that , skilfully used , it could produce a very telling effect . Repetitio , conversio and complexio are all grouped ...
... repetition , a simple enough matter , no doubt , but the Latin theorists and their medieval descendants maintained that , skilfully used , it could produce a very telling effect . Repetitio , conversio and complexio are all grouped ...
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... repetition in their use of refrains , contrasting in this respect with the ode and the sonnet favoured in the Renaissance . The fact remains that repetition was frequently exploited in medieval verse to produce a variety of effects ...
... repetition in their use of refrains , contrasting in this respect with the ode and the sonnet favoured in the Renaissance . The fact remains that repetition was frequently exploited in medieval verse to produce a variety of effects ...
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