Artful Eloquence: Jean Lemaire de Belges and the Rhetorical Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780807892176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 184 str.

Michael F. O. Jenkins

Opis

Challenges the notion that Lemaire's recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. Jenkins demonstrates the importance of rhetoric in pre-Renaissance French literature, filling a crucial gap in previous scholarship. He provides an overview of rhetorical tradition and Lemair's knowledge of it.