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Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy
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Full Title:
Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy
Contributors:
By (Author) John D. Lyons
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
840.9
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
332
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
567g
Description
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
