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The motives of eloquence

literary rhetoric in the Renaissance

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An edition of Motives of Eloquence (1976)

The motives of eloquence

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
234

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Subjects
Renaissance Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Renaissance, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Renaissance, Literature, Modern, Style, literary, Rhetoric, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 15th and 16th centuries, History
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15th and 16th centuries

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Cover of: The Motives of Eloquence
The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
March 2004, Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Cover of: Motives of Eloquence
Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
January 1983, Yale Univ Pr
Paperback in English
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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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Dewey Decimal Class
808/.009/024
Library of Congress
PN88 .L3, PN187, PN88 .L3 1976

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 234 p. ;
Number of pages
234

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Open Library
OL5213634M
Internet Archive
motivesofeloquen0000lanh
ISBN 10
0300020023
LCCN
75043323
OCLC/WorldCat
2577369
Library Thing
1205053
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1877122

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."

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