| Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature Contributor(s): Hawcroft, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198160070 ISBN-13: 9780198160076 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Literary Criticism | European - French - Law | Communications |
| Dewey: 808.044 |
| LCCN: 99050001 |
| Lexile Measure: 1380 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.79 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
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| Publisher Description: 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 Molière, Racine, and Beckett; Montaigne, Sévigné, and Gide on the self; the prose fiction of Laclos, Zola, and Sarraute; poetry by D'Aubigné, Baudelaire, and Césaire; 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. |