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Tag Archives: rhetoric
Grammars and Rhetorics
To appear in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, ed. by Siân Echard and Richard Rouse (forthcoming, August 2017) opening paragraph: What is called western civilization is, perhaps, a fusion of the Roman imperial state and an Abrahamic … Continue reading
Walter Ong, Rhetoric, and Alliterative Verse
The opening frame for a paper I presented in the session “Technologies of Writing: After Ong”, at the 2012 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, held at St. Louis University. The paper was an exposition of the Latin grammatical and … Continue reading
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Tagged alliterative verse, Latin, MAA, Middle English, Old Norse, rhetoric, Walter Ong
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The Rhetoric of Advancement
“The Rhetoric of Advancement: Ars dictaminis, Cursus, and Clerical Careerism in Late Medieval England,” New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 287-328. I had four objectives in this article. First, regarding ars dictaminis itself (that is, the medieval art or discipline of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourdieu, cultural studies, cursus, education, Lacan, Latin, rhetoric
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