Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy

John D. Lyons

Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
332
ISBN
9780691632148

Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy

John D. Lyons

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

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