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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... served to point a lesson of some kind . The effect of this attitude on secular literature was immense , and can clearly be seen in the most important French work to have been written before the Renaissance , the Roman de la Rose , the ...
... served to point a lesson of some kind . The effect of this attitude on secular literature was immense , and can clearly be seen in the most important French work to have been written before the Renaissance , the Roman de la Rose , the ...
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... served the same purpose as in oratory , conveying an impression of naturalness and sincerity . They suggested that the writer was weighing his words carefully , making the reader feel close to the moment and mood of composition , and ...
... served the same purpose as in oratory , conveying an impression of naturalness and sincerity . They suggested that the writer was weighing his words carefully , making the reader feel close to the moment and mood of composition , and ...
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... served an entirely different purpose from that in earlier medieval literature such as the thirteenth century Roman de la Rose . There , as we have seen , a moralising and didactic purpose was served in the expression of general truths ...
... served an entirely different purpose from that in earlier medieval literature such as the thirteenth century Roman de la Rose . There , as we have seen , a moralising and didactic purpose was served in the expression of general truths ...
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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