Passionate eloquence: rhetoric and emotion in Medieval English poetry
This dissertation examines the ways three medieval English poets used the ancient art of rhetoric to shape their poetic compositions and to make their messages more persuasive to reading and listening audiences. Although these poets employed all three of the traditional modes of persuasion—appeals t...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6381 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7882&context=etd |