Exemplum The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy |
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| Author:
| Lyons, John D. |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-63214-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $132.00 |
Book Description:
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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 and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example
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 and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example