The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the EnlightenmentCambridge University Press, 3 déc. 1998 - 218 pages Ian Robinson traces the legacy of of prose writing as a form theorised and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world. |
Table des matières
Sentence and period I | 1 |
Prose rhythm | 45 |
Syntax and period in Middle English | 59 |
Cranmers commonwealth | 71 |
Shakespeare vs the wanderers | 105 |
Drydens democracy | 139 |
The prose world | 151 |
Appendices | 166 |
Medieval punctuation theory | 185 |
Cranmer and the cursus | 200 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Ælfric Apollonius Dyscolus Aristotle beginning Bible blank verse Bunyan called Cambridge University Library century Cicero clauses cola colon comma commata complete complex sentence Covington Cranmer Croll cursus forms deus Dionysius Thrax Dryden edition English prose enim example Falstaff full point grammar grammarians Greek hath haue Hereford Cathedral Ibid King language Latin letter linguistic logical Lord manuscript Martin Marprelate means medieval metrical modern prose modern punctuation Modistae noun oratio ordinary prose Oxford Pause and Effect period phrase planus Prayer Book Priscian punctus Quintilian quoted Radulphus Brito repr rhetorical rhythm rhythmic seems semi-colon sense sententia Shakespeare sicut signifying sound speech stress style syllable syntactic structure syntax tardus thee things Thomas Thomas Cranmer Thomas of Erfurt thought translation trochee Tyndale Tyndale's University Library Dd velox verb verse virgules vnto well-formed sentence word writing written