Grands rhétoriqueurs

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The court poet Jean Molinet brings his work Philipp von Kleve-Ravenstein .

Grands rhétoriqueurs (Eng. "The great rhetoricians") is an invented term to denigrate French-speaking court poets from the middle of the 15th century. until the middle of the 16th century. According to Paul Zumthor , Charles d'Héricault took the term "rhetorician" in 1861 from Guillaume Coquillart's Satire des Droits Nouveaux (1481), where he criticized lawyers.

This name refers to the fact that several 15th century treatises on poetics used the term "rhetoric" in the title, suggesting that poetry was understood as a branch of rhetoric.

Important representatives

14th Century
15th century
16th Century

bibliography

  • Gisela Febel, Poesia ambigua or From the Alphabet to the Poem. Aspects of the development of modern French poetry at the Grands Rhétoriqueurs , Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2001.
  • Paul Zumthor, La Lettre et la Voix. De la "littérature" médiévale , Paris, Le Seuil, 1987.
  • Paul Zumthor, Le Masque et la Lumière. La poétique des grands rhétoriqueurs , Paris, Le Seuil, 1978.

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