Rhetoric: Readings in French LiteratureOxford University Press, 1999 - 268 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Memory | 43 |
Marguerite Yourcenar at the Académie Française | 65 |
DRAMA | 80 |
PROSE FICTION | 120 |
POETRY | 176 |
Baudelaires Le Poison and A une Madone | 184 |
Césaires Cahier dun retour au pays natal | 193 |
THE SELF | 210 |
Mme de Sévignés | 221 |
Gides Si le grain ne meurt | 234 |
CONCLUSION | 245 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 253 |
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