Word as action : Racine, rhetoric, and theatrical language / Michael Hawcroft.

This work explores the theatricality of Jean Racine's language and takes as its analytical tool two relatively neglected parts of rhetoric ('inventio' and 'dispositio'), highlighting the dramatic excitement created by characters who constantly engage in verbal battle trying...

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Main Author: Hawcroft, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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