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Rhetorics of Reason and Desire

Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours
By:Sarah Spence
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Print ISBN:9780801421297
eText ISBN:9781501746291
Edition:0
Copyright:1988
Format:Page Fidelity

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Rhetorics of Reason and Desire traces the appearance of rhetoric in key literary works from classical times to the Middle Ages, focusing on the reception and transformation of Ciceronian rhetoric in Vergil's Aeneid, Augustine's Confessions and On Christian Doctrine, and the lyrics of the early troubadours.