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Rhetoric : readings in French literature / Michael Hawcroft.
LIBRA PC2117 .R465 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawcroft, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French language--Readers--French literature.
- French language.
- French literature.
- French language--Rhetoric.
- Genre:
- Readers (Publications)
- Physical Description:
- x, 268 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Rhetoric is the art of persuasion, whether spoken or written. In the first chapter of Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature, Michael Hawcroft sets out its principles comprehensively and lucidly, providing an easily-consulted outline of key terms and a wide range of illustrative examples. Subsequent chapters explore rhetoric at work in different genres, via close reading of texts which range from the drama of Moliere, Racine, and Beckett; Montaigne, Sevigne, and Gide on the self; the prose fiction of Laclos, Zola, and Sarraute; poetry by D'Aubigne, Baudelaire, and Cesaire; and the oratory of de Gaulle and Yourcenar. Rhetorical analysis uncovers subtleties and complexities in texts which emerge as exciting dramas of communication. This is at once a handbook of rhetoric and a guide to its application to French texts from the sixteenth century to the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198159846
- 0198160070
- OCLC:
- 42597690
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