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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... seems to me no more acceptable than Faral's implication that the cult of the individual is the chief end of creative writing , necessarily superior to the depiction of types and categories . However tempted we may be to condemn the ...
... seems to me no more acceptable than Faral's implication that the cult of the individual is the chief end of creative writing , necessarily superior to the depiction of types and categories . However tempted we may be to condemn the ...
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... seems to have read very little during those years . He retained from his studies an awareness of the stylistic potentialities of language rather than a detailed knowledge of all the rhetorical devices , which are not used consistently ...
... seems to have read very little during those years . He retained from his studies an awareness of the stylistic potentialities of language rather than a detailed knowledge of all the rhetorical devices , which are not used consistently ...
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... seems to me that in at least one important respect the old tradition was superior to the new one , for the object of rhetoric was to pro- vide a training for writers , whereas stylistics provides a training for critics , for the writing ...
... seems to me that in at least one important respect the old tradition was superior to the new one , for the object of rhetoric was to pro- vide a training for writers , whereas stylistics provides a training for critics , for the writing ...
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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