... and constructing the dialogue to function as a metadiscourse on the conversational theories that provide the speaking points of her characters, Scudéry enacts her rhetorical theory of sermo in addition to describing it. After an overview of varying forms of the dialogue genre in Renaissance Europe, a comparison...

...William P. Weaver Philip Melanchthon's importance for the history of Renaissance rhetoric has been reclaimed in a number of recent studies. One of his most innovative and durable legacies was in the doctrine of the figures ( schemata ), examined and evaluated in this essay. A comparison...

...Claude La Charité La lettre invective a joui d'une grande fortune à la Renaissance, comme en témoignent Les Epistres familieres et invectives (1539) d'Hélisenne de Crenne. Une relecture de ce recueil à la lumière de la théorie épistolaire permet de nuancer nos a priori défavorables à cette pratique...