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The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
March 2004, Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
January 1983, Yale Univ Pr
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The motives of eloquence: literary rhetoric in the Renaissance
1976, Yale University Press
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First Sentence
"The discussion of verbal style in the West has proceeded on the basis of a few simple premises which it may help to hold before us."
Table of Contents
1.
The Rhetorical Ideal of Life
Page 1
2.
The Fundamental Strategies: Plato and Ovid
Page 36
3.
Games and High Seriousness: Chaucer
Page 65
4.
The Ovidian Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and Lucrece
Page 82
5.
Superposed Poetics: The Sonnets
Page 111
6.
Superposed Plays: Hamlet
Page 129
7.
The Self as Middle Style: Cortegiano
Page 144
8.
The War Between Play and Purpose: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Page 165
9.
The Dramatic Present: Shakespeare's Henriad
Page 190
Epilogue.
Page 210
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 229-230.
Includes index.
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"The discussion of verbal style in the West has proceeded on the basis of a few simple premises which it may help to hold before us."
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