Rhetoric : readings in French literature

Rhetoric : readings in French literature / [edited by] Michael Hawcroft.

Other author/creator	Hawcroft, Michael.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description	x, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	French language--Readers --French literature. French literature. French language--Rhetoric.

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

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PC2117 .R465 1999	✔ Available	Place Hold