Exemplum : : The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy / / John D. Lyons.
Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I. Machiavelli: Example and Origin
- CHAPTER II. The Heptameron and Unlearning from Example
- CHAPTER III. Montaigne and the Economy of Example
- CHAPTER IV. Descartes and Pascal: Self-Centered Examples
- CHAPTER V. Marie de Lafayette: From Image to Act
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX