Rhetoric : readings in French literature
"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; and the prose fiction of Laclos, Zola, and Sarraute, to poetry by d'Aubigne, Baudelaire, and Cesaire, and the oratory of de Gaulle and Yourcenar. This is at once a handbook of rhetoric and a guide to its application to French texts from the sixteenth century to the present."--Jacket
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x, 268 pages ; 23 cm
9780198160076, 9780198159841, 0198160070, 0198159846
42597690
Kinds of oratory
Invention
Disposition
Elocution
Memory
- Action
The trial of Madame Bovary
General de Gaulle at the BBC, 18 June 1940
Marguerite Yourcenar at the Académie Française
Rhetoric and hypocrisy: Molière's Tartuffe
Rhetoric at court: Racine's Britannicus
Rhetoric in a void: Beckett's En attendant Godot
Rhetoric and sex in Laclo's Les liaisons dangereuses
Rhetoric and politics in Zola's Germinal
Domestic rhetoric in Nathalie Sarraute's Le Planétarium
Protestant rhetoric in D'Aubigné's Les tragiques
Amatory rhetoric: Baudelaire's 'Le poison' and 'A une Madone'
Rhetoric and Negritude: Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
A rhetoric of mutability: Montaigne's Essais
Rhetoric for family and friends: Mme de Sévigné's Correspondance
Rhetoric and sexual revelation: Gid's Si le grain ne meurt