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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... seen in the most important French work to have been written before the Renaissance , the Roman de la Rose , the aim of which was to express general truths on human nature.2 In an allegorical synthesis of this kind , Jealousy has but a ...
... seen in the most important French work to have been written before the Renaissance , the Roman de la Rose , the aim of which was to express general truths on human nature.2 In an allegorical synthesis of this kind , Jealousy has but a ...
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... seen also in the plastic arts of the period , whether the reference be to the statues and carvings of Western Europe , to the stained glass windows , wall paintings , illuminated manuscripts etc. For medieval man , it has been said ' Le ...
... seen also in the plastic arts of the period , whether the reference be to the statues and carvings of Western Europe , to the stained glass windows , wall paintings , illuminated manuscripts etc. For medieval man , it has been said ' Le ...
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... seen . A fundamental difference between English and French writers is that the French , far more than the English , have so often produced their most outstanding work under the seemingly restrictive influence of a particular code or set ...
... seen . A fundamental difference between English and French writers is that the French , far more than the English , have so often produced their most outstanding work under the seemingly restrictive influence of a particular code or set ...
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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