Rhetoric : readings in French literature / [edited by] Michael Hawcroft.
| Other author | Hawcroft, Michael. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description | x, 268 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Kinds of oratory -- Invention -- Disposition -- Elocution -- Memory --- Action -- The trial of Madame Bovary -- General de Gaulle at the BBC, 18 June 1940 -- Marguerite Yourcenar at the Académie Française -- Rhetoric and hypocrisy: Molière's Tartuffe -- Rhetoric at court: Racine's Britannicus -- Rhetoric in a void: Beckett's En attendant Godot -- Rhetoric and sex in Laclo's Les liaisons dangereuses -- Rhetoric and politics in Zola's Germinal -- Domestic rhetoric in Nathalie Sarraute's Le Planétarium -- Protestant rhetoric in D'Aubigné's Les tragiques -- Amatory rhetoric: Baudelaire's 'Le poison' and 'A une Madone' -- Rhetoric and Negritude: Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- A rhetoric of mutability: Montaigne's Essais -- Rhetoric for family and friends: Mme de Sévigné's Correspondance -- Rhetoric and sexual revelation: Gid's Si le grain ne meurt. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-261 and indexes. |
| LCCN | 99050001 |
| ISBN | 0198160070 |
| ISBN | 0198159846 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PC2117 .R465 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |