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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144869703321

Titolo

Medieval rhetoric : a casebook / / edited by Scott D. Troyan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-87473-5

1-135-87474-3

1-280-05922-2

0-203-32869-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Routledge medieval casebooks

Altri autori (Persone)

TroyanScott D. <1959->

Disciplina

808/.042

Soggetti

English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Rhetoric

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Rhetoric, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Medieval Art of Poetry and Prose: The Scope of Instruction and the Uses of Models; Alphabets and Rosary Beads in Chaucer's An ABC; On the Usefulness and Use Value of Books: A Medieval and Modern Inquiry; The Prioress's Oratio ad Mariam and Medieval Prayer Composition; Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer's Poetry; Argument and Emotion in Troilus and Criseyde; Advice without Consent in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales; The Traces of Invention: Phatic Rhetoric, Anthology, and Intertextuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

""The Word Was Made Flesh"": Gendered Bodies and Anti-Bodies in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Arts of PoetryUnwritten between the Lines: The Unspoken History of Rhetoric; Contributors; General Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This new volume in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series explores medieval rhetorical practices.