Ars Poetriae: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy

by William Michael Purcell

Restores a medieval genre to its rightful place in rhetorical history

In this study of thirteenth-century poetry and prose composition, William M. Purcell corrects the tendency of classical historiography to marginalize the contributions of medieval rhetoric and, specifically, to obscure the importance of ars poetriae. Defining the genre as a unique hybrid of rhetoric and grammar, he contends that it should be understood as a development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570030596
• ISBN13: 9781570030598
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"