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Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400 : $b Interpreted from representative works

Name: Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400 : $b Interpreted from representative works
Author: Baldwin, Charles Sears

Baldwin, Charles Sears

Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- To 1500; Rhetoric, Medieval

I. THE SOPHISTIC TREND IN ANCIENT RHETORIC                             1
    A. THE TWO HISTORIC CONCEPTIONS OF RHETORIC                          2
    B. THE SECOND SOPHISTIC                                              8
      1. Philostratus, _Lives of the Sophists_                           8
      2. The Character of Sophistic                                      9
        a. virtuosity                                                    9
          (1) _declamatio_                                              10
          (2) improvisation and memory                                  13
          (3) delivery                                                  16
        b. dilation                                                     17
          (1) ecphrasis                                                 17
        c. pattern                                                      20
          (1) the elementary exercises of Hermogenes                    23
        d. elaboration of style                                         39
          (1) literary allusion and archaism                            40
          (2) decorative imagery                                        41
          (3) balance                                                   42
          (4) _clausula_                                                48
          (5) vehemence                                                 49

  II. ST. AUGUSTINE ON PREACHING (_DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA_, IV)         51

  III. THE LAST ROMAN SCHOOLS AND THE COMPENDS (FIFTH TO SEVENTH
         CENTURIES)                                                     74
    A. THE SCHOOLS OF GAUL                                              75
      1. Ausonius                                                       75
      2. Sidonius Apollinaris                                           78
      3. Textbooks                                                      87
        a. _grammatica_ and _dialectica_                                87
        b. _rhetorica_                                                  89
    B. THE TRIVIUM IN COMPENDS OF THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS                90
      1. Martianus Capella                                              91
      2. Cassiodorus                                                    95
      3. Isidore                                                        95

  IV. POETIC, OLD AND NEW (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES)                  99
    A. CLAUDIAN AND BOETHIUS                                           100
    B. PRUDENTIUS, SEDULIUS, FORTUNATUS                                103
    C. THE EARLIER LATIN HYMNS                                         107
      1. Iambic                                                        116
      2. Trochaic                                                      119
      3. Other Measures                                                121
      4. Poetic Conceptions                                            123

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