The motives of eloquence
Subtitle: literary rhetoric in the Renaissance
By: Richard A. Lanham.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Rhetoric, Renaissance; Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism; Renaissance
First sentence: The discussion of verbal style in the West has proceeded on the basis of a few simple premises which it may help to hold before us.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 229-230.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Rhetorical Ideal of Life
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Fundamental Strategies: Plato and Ovid
pagenum: 36; label: 3
title: Games and High Seriousness: Chaucer
pagenum: 65; label: 4
title: The Ovidian Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and Lucrece
pagenum: 82; label: 5
title: Superposed Poetics: The Sonnets
pagenum: 111; label: 6
title: Superposed Plays: Hamlet
pagenum: 129; label: 7
title: The Self as Middle Style: Cortegiano
pagenum: 144; label: 8
title: The War Between Play and Purpose: Gargantua and Pantagruel
pagenum: 165; label: 9
title: The Dramatic Present: Shakespeare's Henriad
pagenum: 190; label: Epilogue
pagenum: 210