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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



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*CHAPTER I. Machiavelli: Example and Origin, pg. 35*CHAPTER II. The Heptameron and Unlearning from Example, pg. 72*CHAPTER III. Montaigne and the Economy of Example, pg. 118*CHAPTER IV. Descartes and Pascal: Self-Centered Examples, pg. 154*CHAPTER V. Marie de Lafayette: From Image to Act, pg. 196*CONCLUSION, pg. 237*NOTES, pg. 241*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 289*INDEX, pg. 313

Exemplum The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691602684, 978-0691602684
      ISBN10: 0691602689

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*CHAPTER I. Machiavelli: Example and Origin, pg. 35*CHAPTER II. The Heptameron and Unlearning from Example, pg. 72*CHAPTER III. Montaigne and the Economy of Example, pg. 118*CHAPTER IV. Descartes and Pascal: Self-Centered Examples, pg. 154*CHAPTER V. Marie de Lafayette: From Image to Act, pg. 196*CONCLUSION, pg. 237*NOTES, pg. 241*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 289*INDEX, pg. 313

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