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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... spoken language was an inevitable consequence both of its own character , and of changes in civilization . Quintilian pointed out that the writing of speeches involves rhetoric , 2 while Cicero in De Oratore had already drawn attention ...
... spoken language was an inevitable consequence both of its own character , and of changes in civilization . Quintilian pointed out that the writing of speeches involves rhetoric , 2 while Cicero in De Oratore had already drawn attention ...
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... spoken of as an exception , is traditional from this point of view , for in his poetry he too is concerned with types rather than individuals , as in his Regrets de la Belle Heaulmière . This old woman who laments over the passing of ...
... spoken of as an exception , is traditional from this point of view , for in his poetry he too is concerned with types rather than individuals , as in his Regrets de la Belle Heaulmière . This old woman who laments over the passing of ...
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... spoken parts in the vernacular . The art of rhetoric flourished in France from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries , but , like all other art forms , it suffered a temporary decline towards the end of the Middle Ages , a decline ...
... spoken parts in the vernacular . The art of rhetoric flourished in France from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries , but , like all other art forms , it suffered a temporary decline towards the end of the Middle Ages , a decline ...
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