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Morgan, Jo-anne Mary. "Arboreal Eloquence: Trees and Commemoration." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1990.
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This thesis is about the use of trees for commemoration and the memory that they have anchored in the landscape. There has been little written on the use of trees for commemorative purposes despite its symbolic resonance over the last 150 years. To determine the extent to which commemorative trees have been employed, the social practice and context in which the trees were planted, field and archival work was undertaken in New Zealand and Australia. This has been supported with some comparative work using examples from Britain and the United States of America. The research also utilizes the new availabilities of records on-line and the community interests that placed historical and contemporary material on-line. The commemorative tree has been a popular commemorative marker for royal events, the marking of place and as memorial for war dead. It has been as effective an anchor of memory in the landscape as any other form. The memory ascribed to these trees must be understood in terms of the era in which the tree was planted and not just from a distance. Over time the memory represented by the trees and its prescribed meanings, has changed. For all its power and fragility, memory is not permanent but nor is it so ephemeral as to exhibit no robustness at all. Instead memory exists in a state of instability that leaves it open to challenge and to constant reassessment based on the needs of the viewing generation. This instability also allows the memory, and thus the tree, to fade and become part of the domestic landscape of treescape memories (Cloke and Pawson, 2008). However, in some circumstances trees are retrieved and reinscribed with specific memory and made relevant for a new generation. The landscape created by commemorative trees is, therefore, multifunctional, in which social relations support memory, remembrance, forgetting, silences, erasures, and memory slippage.
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Bevis, Matthew. "Dickens, Tennyson, and the art of eloquence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621959.
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Fay, Jessica. "'The most affecting eloquence' : Wordsworth and silence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cccb2bd6-ac9d-4f71-8a8b-e3cd58fd2280.
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This thesis is the first close study of Wordsworth and silence. It uncovers the comprehensive investigation into monastic history and hagiography (with special emphasis on St Basil) that Wordsworth engaged in between 1807 and 1810, showing that the type of silence he valued came from the monastic tradition. I trace Wordsworth’s material commitment to the power of silence through his use of hermit figures and his habit of visiting ruined monasteries. I concentrate on the poetry he composed from 1807 onwards and mark his eight-month residence in 1806-7 at the home of Sir George and Lady Beaumont as the locus at which his intensive interest in monasticism germinated. I thus reveal a new dimension to this important patronal relationship, while additionally offering an analysis of a previously unstudied manuscript pamphlet ('An account of an English Hermit' by Thomas Barnard) which Lady Beaumont sent to the Wordsworths in 1809. I show how Wordsworth’s fascination with monastic sites and silence influenced his understanding of linguistic and political representation, inheritance, community, and pastoral retreat. At the same time, this critical attention to silence aids a revaluation of the religious vision of his work. The thesis uses this historical and biographical information as a means of closely reassessing formal, linguistic, and generic features of Wordsworth's poetry. At its root, my work is about the natures of language, poetic representation, and readerly experience. How does Wordsworth communicate via silence? How does he use silence to 'create the taste' for his poetry? Where does silence impact on his renovation of genre and conceptions of form? I conclude that, for Wordsworth, silence is a positive gathering of stillness from within that is nourished by patterns of repeated activity and community. It is one of his most profound heuristic tools.
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Paiva, Vanessa Padrao de Vasconcelos. "La radio en chaire et en voix." Paris 5, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA05H057.
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La radio en chaire et en voix est une étude à propos de l'action communicative radiophonique. Apparemment occultée par l'éclat de la télévision, la radio a su reconstruire son espace dans les sociétés actuelles en se tournant surtout vers les problèmes du quotidien des auditeurs. Ayant le jour au jour comme matière de son discours, la radio se matérialise à travers une façon de "dire" la société. Un processus inscrit par le temps et par l'espace de son occurrence qui redéfinit le rapport entre les interlocuteurs de l'acte. Une relation de copartage ou le faire "en-commun" est la seule voie possible d'accès à la production du sens. Le travail présente le langage radiophonique comme une construction partagée qui dépasse les limites étroites des signes conventionnels pour se reconstruire comme un dire social, lieu où la production du sens est plurielle. L’auditeur destinataire est lui aussi partenaire dans la construction du discours. La prégnance du sentiment d'appartenir a un ensemble dont le centre est la radio transforme l'auditeur-individu en "personna" qui dans un ici et un maintenant se retrouve comme partie d'une communauté d'auditeurs.
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Phillips, Peter T. G. "Bravery and eloquence : poetry in the siyar shaʻbīyah." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/15637/.
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Cody, Steven Joseph. "Mantegna's (Mars and Venus) the pursuit of pictorial eloquence /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/10015.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Art History and Archaeology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Schwiebert, Jonathan D. "Paul's argument with "eloquence" in 1 Corinthians 2:4." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.
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Potkay, Adam Stanley. "The fate of eloquence in the age of Hume /." Ithaca (N.Y.) ; London : Cornell university press, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37099295f.
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Burgess, Christopher John. "Passionate eloquence: rhetoric and emotion in Medieval English poetry." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6381.
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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 to logos (reasoning), ethos (character) and pathos (emotion)—this examination focuses primarily on the ways these poets sought to elicit and control emotional responses in their audiences, thereby exposing an emotional dimension in these texts that is not commonly contemplated by critics of these poems. And while the ability of poets to affect audiences emotionally in the pursuit of persuasive agendas was often considered the sine qua non of rhetorical artistry in the Middle Ages, not enough attention has been given to the ways those efforts may shed light on common modern critical approaches to these poems, as well as on their overall interpretation.
The first chapter examines how Chaucer, in The Franklin’s Tale, uses rhetorical doctrines of style, and in particular the “colors of rhetoric,” to develop an emotional dimension in his retelling of an old story from Boccaccio. I then show how the Franklin attempts to use the emotional responses of his audience to move them toward accepting a sophisticated notion of empathy as a remedy for the socio-cultural disruptions that troubled late fourteenth-century English society.
In the second chapter, I examine how the anonymous twelfth- or thirteenth century author of The Owl and the Nightingale uses rhetorical invention and style to evoke powerful emotional responses in his audience in order to vivify the debate engaged in by the poem’s two avian adversaries. In part, it is the emotional vehemence of their antagonism that shows why the contest they are engaged should be regarded as a specifically rhetorical form of activity, and I argue that the poet’s uncommon display of rhetorical talent is meant as a plea for his professional preferment.
The third chapter examines the way the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf uses the art of rhetoric—conceived of in the period as an art of eloquence—to heighten and intensify his audience’s emotional engagement with his Old English retelling of an antique Latin narrative of the martyrdom of Saint Juliana. Specifically, I argue that the poet’s use of a highly stylized ornatus and his rhetorically grounded modifications to the story both serve to move his Anglo-Saxon audience to a more passionate embrace of the saint’s holiness and a fiercer rejection of the evils that threaten their Christian values.
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Arrignon, Jean-Pierre. "La Chaire métropolitaine de Kiev des origines à 1240." Paris 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA010502.
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Les Rhos qui se présentent sous les murs de Constantinople à la mi-juin 860 sont des aventuriers suédois, les Varègues, que le patriarche Photios repousse. Les byzantins comprennent que la situation change dans la zone septentrionale de la mer noire. Ils font des russes, leurs nouveaux alliés dans ces régions. Ils concluent avec eux des traités de commerce. En 957 la princesse russe Olga est officiellement reçue à Constantinople par l'empereur Constantin VII. C'est sous le règne de son petit-fils que le christianisme devint la religion officielle de la Russie. Vladimir reçut le baptême à Cherson le 19 mai 989 et les kiéviens le 15 aout de la même année dans les eaux du Dniepr. Le premier siège épiscopal russe fut installé à Kiev, dans l'église de la dime érigée de 990 à 996. Elle fut dotée d'une dime levée sur les revenus princiers. La chaire métropolitaine fut créée vers l'an 1000 et son premier titulaire fut jean 1er. Le prince Saroslav fit ériger une église métropolitaine prestigieuse: Sainte Sophie (1037 vers 1050). Les métropolites de Kiev furent tous des grecs a l'exception de deux d'entre eux : Hilarion et clément de Smolensk. Ces métropolites créèrent le réseau des évêchés russes et reproduisirent en Russie le modelé byzantin de l'organisation des pouvoirs de l'église et de l'état. Outre l'idéologie politique, les métropolites russes ont diffusé dans le pays, la littérature patristique et liturgique byzantine dans leurs traductions slavonnes. Ils sont aussi à l'origine de la création du chant liturgique mélismatique et des églises a coupoles multiples. Par eux, la civilisation russe est une civilisation d'héritiers.
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Teiro, Elisabeth. "La chaire métropolitaine en pays russe (XIVème-XVIème siècles)." Paris, EPHE, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EPHE4041.
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Résumé français : La chaire métropolitaine a deux acceptions : I'ensemble des diocèses suffragants du métropolite et I'évêché propre de ce dernier. Du fait de sa position géographique et de sa taille, la chaire métropolitaine de Russia bénéficiait d'un statut particulier. Autocéphale de fait en 1448, le diocèse de Russia voit ses frontières réduites à celles de I'État moscovite et des zones reconnaissant son autorité. La politique d'instauration du culte des métropolites, qui sert I'ascension de la principauté moscovite, se poursuit et prend une dimension nouvelle. Priorité est ici donnée à I'organisation interne de la chaire (aux modalités d'accession à la prélature et à I'organisation des diocèses) et au temporel (exclusivement aux biens-fonds, puisque les sources sont insuffisantes pour mener I'étude des biens meubles). II ressort de cette étude qu'à mesure que le pouvoir moscovite renforçait son emprise sur I'Église, elle parvenait à résister en accroissant en permanence sa puissance économiqueRésumé anglais : The metropolitan see has 2 meanings: all the dioceses suffragan of the metropolitan and the bishopric belonging to. Because of the geographical position and his size the Russian metropolitan see profits of a particular status. Diocese of Russia became autocephalous in fact in 1448, and saw his boundaries reduced to the muscovite state and the zones recognizing his authority. Politic of instauration of the metropolitan cult, which deserves the rising of the muscovite principality, continues and takes a new dimension. Relations between Church and the muscovite princes being a much studied subject, priority here is given to the internal organization of the see (about the clauses of accession to the prelacy and the organization of the dioceses) to the temporal (exclusively to landed property, because sources are deficiency to the study about the movable estate). It comes out of this study that as more the muscovite power strengthens to resist in increasing his economical power permanently
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Helms, Kyle. "Masters of Eloquence and Masters of Empire: Quintilian in Context." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468335709.
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Raymond, Joad. "The crisis of eloquence : reading and writing English newsbooks, 1641-1649." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320523.
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Cmiel, Kenneth. "Democratic eloquence : the fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America /." New York : W. Morrow, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355472349.
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Kivistö, Sari Anneli. "Creating anti-eloquence : "Epistolae obscurorum virorum" and the humanist polemics on style /." Helsinki : Societas Scientiarium Fennica, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39239968v.
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Woodspring, N. ""It's all life" : an exploration of the eloquence of embodiment in postwar adults." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2014. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23405/.
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In recent years, the academic field of gerontology has developed a newfound interest in the body. A curiosity about temporality, in its many manifestations: chronology, generation, rhythmicity, pace, anticipation, and history, to name a few, is growing in the social sciences. To date, no one has tackled ageing bodies embedded and embodied in time. This thesis explores time, embodiment, and identity as people come to know, experience and conceive of the bodily ageing process. The cohort, coming of age in the sixties timescape were in the centre of a social rupture. That era starkly exemplifies the importance of time and identity but is, by no means, a stand-alone event. The multiple aspects of the temporal dimension profoundly influence our expression and experience of ageing embodiment and meaning as expressed through identity. Yet, ageing is also a universal human experience. The collective experience of the postwar generation including the Bomb and Cold War, Earthrise, music and dance, the Pill, and the liberation movements have influenced expressions of physicality throughout the lifetime of this cohort. For this cohort, the experience of these events is now influencing the meaning of embodied ageing and identity. Body, time and the times of the postwar cohort are explored in this thesis. The inclusion of the intersection of time and body adds to our understanding of ageing. Employing a systemic perspective and constructivist grounded theory methodology, this study reflects research that included rich interview data from a cross-class study of thirty adults born between 1945 – 1955. The study makes an original contribution to the field of social/cultural gerontology in its exploration of embodiment, time, and identity and the findings that result from that investigation. The concepts of deep time, relative time, and dynamic legacy in relationship to older people are illuminated as a result of this study.
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Preus, Mary C. "Eloquence and ignorance in Augustine's "On the nature and origin of the soul" /." Atlanta : Ga. : Scholars press, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34934790s.
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Eriksson, Jens. "The Eloquence of Speechlessness : Hybridity, Sexed Bodies, and Astonishment in Kant’s Theory of Epigenesis." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of History of Science and Ideas, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-113807.
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Keywords: Immanuel Kant (
narratives in European naturalism and political anatomy. Yet the concept surfaces in gender historical research on the period in foot notes and cursory remarks. This paper interrogates why epigenesis has been eradicated from the historical consciousness of today’s scholarship on gender politics. By honing in on the weirdness, a term borrowed from Lorraine Daston, in and of Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) theory on animal generation I show how an alertness it requires a re-evaluation of views on "political anatomy" taken-for-granted in scholarship, but also of Kant’s philosophy itself. The endeavour is divided into three main sections.
In the first, I situate the failure of Kant-scholars to, in the words of John H. Zammito, "stabilize" epigenesis by exploring the hitherto unacknowledged peculiarity of Kant’s use racial hybridity to ‘prove’ the theory. In the second, the analysis departs from the notion ‘modern sex difference’ and show that a reading of epigenesis requires a re-thinking of sexed bodily identity in terms of conflict and contradiction. The third section reads this strife in light of Kant’s experience of "astonishment", a cognitive mode, I argue, designed to resolve both physiological and ideological inconsistencies. The antinomy of sex differentiation is in a concluding section juxtaposed with Kant’s phrase "eloquent speechlessness" in which the gender practice activated in the writing of, about, and on epigenesis is compared to the structure informing moral philosophy’s definition of lies.
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Tusalp, Ekin Emine. "Political Literacy and the Politics of Eloquence: Ottoman Scribal Community in the Seventeenth Century." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11277.
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In 1703, the chief scribe (reisü'l-küttab) Rami Mehmed Efendi (d. 1708) was appointed as the grand vizier in the Ottoman Empire. In scholarship, Rami Mehmed epitomizes the transition in the political cadres from the people of the sword/seyfiye to the people of the pen/kalemiye as the first chief scribe to be appointed as the grand vizier. While this transition has long been accepted as a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century Ottoman history, the cultural and intellectual formation of "the people of the pen" as a distinct community before this period has not been adequately examined.
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Warwick, Claire Louise Harrison. "#Love is eloquence' : Richard Crashaw and the development of a discourse of divine love." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338019.
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Cohen-Halimi, Michèle. "Eloquence et morale chez Kant : un commentaire des fondements de la métaphysique des mœurs." Paris 10, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA100003.
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Ce travail est né de l'attrait pour une question, celle du formalisme imputé à la philosophie morale de kant. Reprendre l'examen de cette question nous conduit à une étude de la forme de la loi morale et de la formule de l'impératif catégorique ainsi qu’à une redéfinition générale de la nature de l'univers alite pratique. Cette recherche se déploie dans l'immanence d'une œuvre : les fondements de la métaphysique des mœurs ; c'est d'avoir ambitionné d'être populaire tout en étant fondatrice que cette œuvre a retenu notre attention. Exigeant d'un cote des principes rationnels purs et de l'autre une certaine compatibilité avec la conscience commune, les FMM traduisent un déplacement radical de l'enjeu de la popularité pour la philosophie pratique : celle-ci n'y joue pas simplement une audience qu'elle devrait disputer a celle des "philosophes populaires", elle y fait l'épreuve de son propre statut et, en retour, cette épreuve rejaillit sur son inscription dans l'Aufklarung. Il faut cependant trouver une "façon" de donner a la loi morale un accès dans l'esprit humain. Cette "façon" mise en œuvre dans les FMM trouve sa vraie définition sous le nom de rhetorik au paragraphe 53 de la critique de la faculté de juger et s'appréhende dans la tension oxymorique d'un art du sublime. Nous comparons la rhetorik a l'éloquence du législateur définie par Rousseau dans le contrat social et nous montrons comment celle-la hérite des apories de celle-ci. Notre commentaire des FMM part de la définition de la rhetorik et y revient selon un cheminement qui ambitionne d'emprunter la voie Arendtienne d'une lecture politique de la CJThis work is a reflection on the formalism attributed to Kant's moral philosophy. In re-examining this issue, one is led to study the form of the moral law and the formula of the categorical imperative, as well as to redefine the specificity of practical universality. This research unfolds within the inner structure of groundwork of the metaphysics of morals. Because it was meant to be popular and seminal at the same time, this work has been found to be worthy of interest. Demanding, on the one hand, pure rational principles and, on the other hand, a certain compatibility with common sense, GMM expresses a radical displacement of the real meaning of popularity for practical philosophy : it does not only risk a readership which might be challenged by "popular philosophers", it experiences its own status, in turn determining its place in the aufklarung. However, it is necessary to find a way to integrate moral law into the human spirit. This particular process illustrated in GMM, which finds its real definition under the name of rhetorik in paragraph 53 of critique of judgement, can be understood in the contradictory tension of an art of the sublime. The concept of rhetorik can be compared with the eloquence of Rousseau's legislator in the social contract to show how the first one inherits the Aporias of the second. Our commentary on GMM starts from the definition of rhetorik and returns to it through a pathway ambitioning to take the road of Arendt's political reading of CJ
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Oberst, von Oberstein Henrietta. "'Wild eloquence' and 'confused magnificence' : Sir Thomas Wyatt's language and rhetoric in poetry and prose." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488837.
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Sir Thomas Wyatt's poetry has most often been analysed with reference to his biography, his sources and his imagery. I propose, for the first time, that linguistic features of his poems need to be taken Into account when evaluating Wyatt's contribution to English literature. In this thesis, I therefore analyse Wyatt's language. Including his vocabulary and syntax, and his use of rhetoric, concentrating on rhetorical structure and rhetorical devices. I employ statistical methods in order to arrive at verifiable conclusions, and, based on these conclusions, I endeavour to determine whether a number of anonymous poems can be attributed to Wyatt.
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Maxson, Brian. "Review of Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Histoire, eloquence et poésie à Florence au début du Quattrocento." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6213.
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Laurence Bernard-Pradelle’s Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Histoire, e´loquence et poe´sie a` Florence au de´but du Quattrocento seeks to broaden Bruni’s appeal among readers of French. Toward this end, the book offers an extensive introduction to the life and works of Leonardo Bruni. It also includes new Latin editions of several of Bruni’s shorter works with facing-page French translations. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography. The volume’s primary interest for readers of English will be Bernard-Pradelle’s detailed and learned analysis of Bruni’s sources for the texts published in the volume
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Džiautaitė, Violeta. "8-10 klasių mokinių iškalbos ugdymo galimybės technologijų pamokose." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060605_233502-96590.
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Dictionary of Modern Lithuanian (Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas, 1993) defines the eloquence as a skill or power of using a persuasive, powerful discourse, rhetoric. Rhetoric is a flexible science, adjusting itself to the character of relevant ideas and wording of certain epoch. Rhetoric, as theory and practice of eloquence, has been relevant at all times.
Goal of Master Thesis is to analyse the possibilities of eloquence education for pupils of 8-10 grades in lessons of technology.
We were focused on the attempt to analyse the literature on given topic in pedagogical, psychological and philosophical aspects; later, with the aids of anonymous questionnaire, we tried to identify the opinion of pupils about a level of their own eloquence; we also wanted to summarize the viewpoints of pupils and teachers to the education of eloquence, and to discuss the possibilities of eloquence education in lessons of technology.
In the literature part of work, the definition of eloquence education is analysed, links with other sciences are envisaged, education of language skills at school, problems of education of language skills and other aspects are reviewed. After analyzing the literature on the specified topic it became evident that different aspects of eloquence education for pupils are widely approached and described in different Lithuanian educational documents and scientific works. Nevertheless, as scientists maintain, eloquence education is insufficient.
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Langdale, Glyn Allen. "Eloquence and imagery : the function of Fra Angelico's frescoes in the Chapel of Pope Nicholas V." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30100.
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Fra Angelico's fresco cycle of the lives and martyrdoms of SS. Stephen and Lawrence in the Chapel of Nicholas V (1447-49) communicate in a style which seems to be rhetorical in the sense that they employ numerous strategies which appear to aim at persuading viewers of the truth of the ideological notions the frescoes convey. This fact encourages one to consider the specific pressures which the context of the frescoes' production may have exerted. Commissioned by a pope who had the training of a professional humanist - and who, as a humanist, had interest in the efficacy of rhetoric - these frescoes convey their messages with a persuasive pictorial 'eloquence1 which, in some respects, corresponds to or plays off on humanist definitions of eloquence. The following study attempts to explain what messages these frescoes were meant to communicate, and how their manner of communication is rhetorical. The rhetorical style becomes a method of conveying old ideas in new ways, and may have made the messages more resonant in the context in which they were meant to function.
A paucity of primary documentation on the frescoes makes this type of evaluation difficult. Problems in identifying the frescoes' intended audience and working on the troublesome ground between the rhetorical nature of written and pictorial texts also complicates this' investigation. Nevertheless, by considering the problems and aims of Nicholas Vs pontificate, and by closely examining the subject matter, organization, and expression of the frescoes, some indication as to their probable function may be gained.Arts, Faculty of
Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of
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Breideband, Thomas [Verfasser]. "PROGRAMMED ‘TREASURIES OF ELOQUENCE’: A RHETORICAL TAKE ON PRODUCTIVITY AIDS IN AUDIO ENGINEERING SOFTWARE / Thomas Breideband." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1231433450/34.
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Nelson, Robert. "A Robe of Eloquence: Speech and Power in the Life and Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626151.
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Wolff, Denis. "Albert Demangeon (1872-1940) : de l'école communale à la chaire en Sorbonne, l'itinéraire d'un géographe moderne." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00009648.
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Malgré son rôle fondamental dans le développement de la géographie en France, Albert Demangeon (1872-1940) reste relativement méconnu. Cette biobibliographie intellectuelle, élaborée à partir de publications parfois ignorées et de documents d'archives, présente son itinéraire en trois parties qui suivent les grands moments de sa vie jusqu'au milieu des années vingt. La première correspond à son ascension professionnelle et sociale : baccalauréat (1890), entrée à l'Ecole normale supérieure (1892), agrégation (1895), thèse sur la Picardie (1905) et beau mariage. La seconde couvre le début de sa carrière universitaire à Lille (1904-1911) puis à la Sorbonne jusqu'à l'irruption de la guerre ; c'est, à l'époque, un géographe polyvalent. La troisième analyse son engagement pendant et après la Grande Guerre et ses interrogations sur le sort de l'Europe dans le monde après le conflit. Albert Demangeon apparaît finalement de manière contrastée. Si certains ouvrages sont novateurs, s'ils mettent en oeuvre brillamment la géographie moderne à toutes les échelles, on ne peut discerner une théorie originale et leur apport méthodologique est réduit. Ce grand travailleur, infatigable promoteur de la géographie régionale et humaine, est plutôt un vulgarisateur. Il défend la géographie nouvelle tout en collaborant avec les sociologues et les historiens qui contestent ses prétentions. Sans être un organisateur comme Emmanuel de Martonne, son autorité ne cesse d'augmenter au sein de l'Ecole française de géographie dont il est l'une des chevilles ouvrières.
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Borello, Benedetta. "Du patriarcat urbain à la chaire de Saint Pierre : les Pamphilj du XVe au XVIIIe siècle." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0028.
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Morgan, George MacGregor. "London! O Melancholy! : the eloquence of the body in the town in the English novel of sentiment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2573.
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Morgan reads the treatment of gesture in Clarissa (Richardson, 1747 - 48), Amelia (Fielding,1 751), and Cecilia (Burney, 1782) to study the capacity the sentimental novel attributes to physical forms of eloquence to generate sociability and moderate selfishness in London. He argues that the eighteenth-century English novel of sentiment adopts a physiology derived from Descartes's theory of the body-machine to construct sentimental protagonists whose gestures bear witness against Bernard Mandeville's assertions that people are not naturally sociable, and that self-interest, rather than sympathy, determines absolutely every aspect of human behaviour. However, when studied in the context of sentimental fiction set in the cruel and unsociable metropolis of London, the action of this eloquent body proved relatively ineffectual in changing its spectators for the better. In the English novelistic tradition that stems from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747 - 48), selfishness lies at the roots of civilization, and inculcates modern urban people with instinctively theatrical mores: metropolitan theatricality, marked out in the gestures of the polite body, works to vitiate the sociability that might naturally animate everyday human intercourse. Clarissa responds to the dilemma of the intrinsic theatricality and self-interestedness of modern civil society with a heroine whose gestures (that is, whose physical states) demonstrate an eloquence that partially counteracts some of the effects self-love has upon the metropolis. But while sympathy and natural eloquence do little to diminish London's submission to selfishness, they remain, in Clarissa, unequivocally good. In contrast with Clarissa, Henry Fielding's Amelia (1751) and Frances Burney's Cecilia (1782) criticize both phenomena. In these novels, both by written by socially conservative authors, natural eloquence and sympathy do not generate sociability in London at all and do not even ensure personal virtue unless they are tempered by the discipline of some kind of theatricality. For Fielding and for Burney, unregulated sympathy becomes a problem to which the best remedy is a modicum of stage-craft. But, strangely enough, all three novels indirectly licence the principles of the self-interest they ostensibly attack. Ultimately, these novels of sentiment self-consciously position sympathy and natural eloquence as supplemental discourses that might protest against the dominant practices of Mandevillian self-interest that produce the social order of the metropolis. The net result is that the novel of sentiment implicitly tolerates the dominance of self-interest in the areas of public activity that lie mostly outside the subject-matter with which sentimental fiction principally concerns itself.
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Cawsey, Suzanne F. "Royal eloquence in the Spanish Peninsula with particular reference to the Crown of Aragon c. 1200-1410." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244207.
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Coleman, Matthew Casey, and Matthew Casey Coleman. ""Pardon the Lack of Eloquence:" The Creation of New Ritual Traditions from Imperial Contact in Roman Gaul." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620960.
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This dissertation analyzes the means by which ritual traditions changed and spread throughout the Roman provinces in Gaul in the first two centuries CE. While numerous scholars have studied ritual shifts in Roman Gaul with a focus on material culture and imagery, this has not been accompanied by a focus on the negotiations involving the non-elite. By including non-elite Gauls in the analysis, my research creates a full picture of religious change that traces how the traditions evolved and how these adaptations spread across the region. This project argues that ritual sites, practices of ritual deposition, monuments depicting the gods, burial traditions, burial stelae, and some commercial production were all part of the cultural negotiation regarding ritual among Gauls of various levels in the social hierarchy. Communication of these cultural negotiations was transmitted along the trade and pilgrimage travel routes in Gaul, including both roads and rivers. Numerous individuals used these routes and discussed their own ideas and learned about other views of the gods on their journeys. As these ideas spread, they gradually standardized. This regional study, that covers a broad periodization, states that the provinces of Gaul adopted Roman ritual imports into their religion through a nuanced series of local cultural negotiations that were still part of a regional network connected by travel routes. This process takes into account communal choices in regional changes. By broadening the focus of the study of provincial societies, this dissertation shows that the changes brought into new areas by the Romans created a complex network of negotiation, which crossed social hierarchies and geographical boundaries.
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Nakayama, Patricia. "Sobre a descrição do ser: estudo sobre ameríndios, Thomas Hobbes e os rebentos de seu estado de natureza." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-31032015-172820/.
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A presente pesquisa trata da inter-relação entre a enunciação do ser e a política, tanto no Estado Civil, a partir do paradigma hobbesiano, como dentre os ameríndios. Em outras palavras, segue-se em busca das relações entre os sujeitos filosóficos e linguísticos destes enunciados. Para a compreensão desta inter-relação, o estudo parte das fontes antigas que engendram as formas hobbesianas para se concretizar os monopólios das fontes de poder pelo soberano, a saber força e inventio, bem como sua relação com as unidades descritivas das línguas modernas que possibilitam estas formas de monopólio. No caso dos ameríndios, compreender a relação entre a efetivação da democracia grega idealizada ou da cosmodeliberação e as estruturas linguísticas enunciativas que a proporcionam. No Estado Civil, o soberano descreve o ser delimitando sua existência, seus deveres e direitos. Dentre os ameríndios, não há alguém ou alguma instância que descreva de modo monopolizador o que é o ser. A apropriação de palavras alheias aos modos operandi ameríndio também é interesse deste estudo, pois são indícios enunciativos do encontro destes dois modos de se conduzir os homens, conformando a relação entre a descrição do ser pelo Estado civil e a descrição polifônica ameríndia sobre o cosmoThis research provides the interrelationship between the enunciation of the being and policy, both in the Civil State, from the Hobbesian paradigm, as among the Amerindians. In other words, from the interrelationship, there follows in search of the relations between philosophical and linguistic subject of these propositions. For the understanding of this interrelationship, this study start from of the ancient sources who generate the Hobbesian forms to achieve the monopoly of the sources of power by the sovereign, namely strength and inventio, as well as its relationship with the descriptive units of modern languages enable these forms of monopoly. In the case of the Amerindians, to understand the relationship between the effectiveness of the idealized greek democracy or cosmodeliberation and enunciatives linguistics structures makes this possible. In the Civil State, the sovereign describes the being delimiting their existence, their rights and duties. Among the Amerindians, there are no instances of someone or something that describes in the monopolistic way what is the being. The appropriation of strangers\' words to Amerindian modus operandi is also a concern of this study because they are evidence of the enunciative meeting of these two modes of leading the men, conforming the relationship between the description of the being by the Civil State and Amerindian polyphonic description of the cosmos
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Ferluc, Agnès de. "« Cherche[r] quelque ombre d’infinité » : le langage du désir dans les textes de Bossuet." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON30040.
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Notion centrale de sa spiritualité, le désir selon Bossuet fait advenir son objet : d'où l'invitation à l'élaguer comme à l'exalter, à la recherche de « l'unique nécessaire ». Héritier de l'Antiquité païenne et chrétienne, augustinien et thomasien plus que cartésien, Bossuet défend la doctrine catholique traditionnelle. Son apologie de l'intérêt propre dans la quête du salut rejoint toutefois des préoccupations propres à son temps. Peut-il évoquer le désir spirituel de manière analogue aux désirs sensibles ? En un siècle où les termes théologiques se laïcisent, sa préférence pour ce mot profane favorise ce lien, même si sa perspective sur les désordres du désir demeure plus métaphysique que celle des moralistes. Naturel et surnaturel, l'élan du désir de Dieu dépasse infiniment le sensible dont il ne peut se déprendre. Cela se traduit dans la rhétorique du prédicateur post-tridentin, qui recourt à des images pédagogiques et imparfaites, ici recensées dans un index. Comme dans le système figural biblique, dispositif attisant le désir d'un accomplissement, leur littéralité est signifiante. Appuyé sur des médiations bibliques et patristiques, l'univers imaginaire de Bossuet est marqué par l'importance de la nature dont l'harmonie chante l'amour de Dieu et par le recours privilégié aux métaphores de l'amour nuptial. Le prédicateur entend susciter ce désir au moyen de son verbe. La délectable musicalité de son éloquence oratoire métaphorise l'orientation du sensible vers Dieu. Ses lettres, sermons et écrits spirituels transmettent l'impetus animant le fidèle et le lyrique langage de sa prière. Car l'expression du désir de Dieu ne peut ici-bas se passer du tâtonnement des motsThe desire is central to Bossuet's spirituality. According to him, desire will make its object come to be : therefore one must control it or exalt it, in the hopes of securing “the one thing needful”. Heir to Pagan and Christian Antiquity, as an Augustinian and Thomist more so than a Cartesian, Bossuet defends traditional Catholic doctrine. His promotion of self-interest in the quest for salvation nevertheless has a relationship with some concerns typical of his time. Could he evoke spiritual desire in an analogous way to carnal desires ? Since, in the seventeenth century, theological terms were frequently rendered secular, his preference for the profane word encourages this analogy, although his perspective on the disorders of desire remains more metaphysical than the Moralists'views. Both natural and surnatural, the momentum of the desire of God infinitely surpasses the sensitive order from which it cannot free itself. This presents itself through the post-Tridentine predicator's rhetoric. He uses pedagogic and imperfect images, here inventoried in an index. As in the biblical figural system, which arouses the desire for an accomplishment, their literalness is meaningful. Fortified by biblical and patristical mediations, Bossuet's imaginary world is marked by the importance of nature (the harmony of which sings the love of God) and a predilection for metaphors of nuptial love. The predicator aims to instigate this love, through his verb. The delectable musicality of his oratorical elo-quence metaphorically represents this orientation of bodily desires towards God. His letters, sermons and spiritual wrintings communicate the impetus animating the faithful and the lyrical language of his prayer. Because in our world one cannot express God's desire without fumbling with words
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Noël, Gérard. "Contribution à l'histoire de la pharmacie d'après les thèses consacrées à cette histoire et appartenant à la chaire de droit pharmaceutique." Paris 5, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA05P209.
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Dubois, Michel. "Le "relativisme de la chaire" : structure théorique du relativisme cognitif en sociologie de la connaissance scientifique et raisons de son succès." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040159.
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Notre analyse des rapports entre la sociologie de la connaissance scientifique et la doctrine du relativisme cognitif possède quatre objectifs : - identification, par-delà la diversité de ses manifestations empiriques, de la permanence du principe de relativité au sein de la démarche de la sociologie de la connaissance et dissociation de ce principe général de la doctrine du relativisme cognitif. - établir la structure argumentative propre à la doctrine du relativisme cognitif et en fournir une évaluation critique à partir de l'observation de ses manifestations dans la sociologie de la connaissance scientifique contemporaine (Bloor, Collins, Latour, etc. ). - rendre compte des principales théories sociologiques du relativisme en général et développer à partir de l'analyse d'une polémique internationale récente à laquelle ont été mêlés relativistes et anti-relativistes - l'affaire « Sokal » - un modèle explicatif pluricausal susceptible de rendre raison de l'adhésion à la doctrine du relativisme cognitif - mettre à l'épreuve ce modèle explicatif en quittant la sphère étroite de la sociologie de la connaissance scientifique pour rendre compte de la diffusion de la doctrine du relativisme cognitif dans d'autres domaines que la sociologie. Cette analyse se veut avant tout constructive : il s'agit de définir progressivement, à travers la mise en œuvre d'une réflexion critique, les caractéristiques d'une conception « acceptable » de la sociologie de la connaissance scientifique. Cette acceptabilité, étant selon nous, étroitement liée à la capacité de cette dernière à établir la contextualité des phénomènes cognitifs et des comportements qui s'y rapportent sans pour autant renoncer à penser leur rationalité intrinsèqueOur analysis of the relations between sociology of scientific knowledge and cognitive relativism has four goals: - identification, through the diversity of its empirical forms in classical sociology of knowledge, of the permanence of the “relativity principle” and dissociation of this principle from the doctrine of cognitive relativism. - critical study of the argumentative structure of cognitive relativism in contemporary sociology of scientific knowledge (Bloor, Collins, Latour. . . ) - elaboration of a sociological explanation of its success in sociology of scientific knowledge. - test our explanation by finding out whether it can help us to understand the diffusion of cognitive relativism outside of sociology. This work wants to contribute to the renovation of the sociology of scientific knowledge; a renovation inspire by the necessity of thinking both rationality and contextuality of cognitive phenomena
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Cristofoletti, Fabricio Klain. "A noção de eloqüência no De doctrina christiana de Agostinho de Hipona." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-04082010-142008/.
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Trata-se de uma dissertação sobre o pensamento filosófico de Agostinho de Hipona em relação à beleza do discurso e à utilidade da retórica e da eloqüência, temas que aparecem no livro IV do De doctrina christiana (Da instrução cristã) e, por isso, dentro da reflexão sobre o ideal de uma educação tipicamente cristã. Na Antigüidade, embora a eloqüência estivesse intrinsecamente ligada à arte retórica, esta questão, para Agostinho, deve ser tratada em conexão com algumas orientações da filosofia moral e da teologia cristãs, situadas para além da técnica. Em comparação com o antigo ideal oratório romano, sobretudo o ciceroniano, a maior importância conferida por Agostinho à Bíblia cristã, isto é, à sabedoria e à moral dos autores bíblicos, traz novos significados para o termo \'eloqüência\'. Além disso, o aprendizado oratório, que se alicerçava na doutrina e no hábito, é dessa vez resumido e transmitido por Agostinho segundo um método radical de imitação, cujos modelos passam a ser os escritores bíblicos e eclesiásticos, aqueles inspirados por Deus e gratificados com a união da eloqüência à sabedoria.This dissertation is about the philosophical thinking of Augustine of Hippo in relation to the beauty of speech and the usefulness of rhetoric and eloquence, themes that appear in Book IV of De doctrina christiana (On Christian Teaching) and therefore within the reflection on the ideal of education typically Christian. In Antiquity, although the eloquence was intrinsically linked to the rhetorical art, this issue, for Augustine, it must be treated in connection with some directions of Christian moral philosophy and theology, located beyond the technique. In comparison to the antique ideal of Roman oratory, especially the Ciceronian, the greater importance given by Augustine to the Christian Bible, that is, to the wisdom and morality of the biblical authors, bring new meaning to the term \'eloquence\'. Moreover, the learning of oratory, which was based on the doctrine and habit, this time is summed up by Augustine and transmitted according to a radical method of imitation, whose models have to be the biblical and ecclesiastical writers, those inspired by God and rewarded with union between eloquence and wisdom.
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Zoberman, Pierre. "Les ceremonies de la parole : l'eloquence d'apparat en france dans le dernier quart du dix-septieme siecle." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040452.
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Cette these vise a definit le concept d'eloquence d'apparat a partir de ses manifestations dans les academies, les institutions judiciaires et les municipalites en france a la fin du dix-septieme siecle. Elle rend compte de l'unite qui regit l'ensemble des pratiques oratoires ceremonielles. Un lieu richement decore et organise specifiquement pour la ceremonie, un public nombreux et choisi : ce sont autant d'elements qui renforcent le travail rhetotique. Le discours d'apparat doit s'adapter au contexte social et repondre aux attentes esthetiques du public et de l'institution qui le fait naitre. Celle-ci y trouve l'expression de ses valeurs et une image satisfaisante d'elle-meme qui lui permet d'affirmer sa grandeur. L'homme de lettres, le parlementaire et le magistrat municipal cherchent tous a fonder leurs privileges sociaux sur un concept du merite professionnel. Du point de vue de la langue et de la politique, paris se distingue de la province, mais les deux se rejoignent dans une ideologie d'expansion culturelle francaiseThis thesis aims at defining the concept of ceremonial eloquence (eloquence d'apparat) on the basis of its manifestations in the academies, the judicial institutions, and the civic life in france at the end of the 17th century. The work accounts for the intuitive recognition of ceremonial similarities governing various oratorical practices. A physical setting richly decorated and specifically organized for an occasion,a selcect yet numerous public these are among the elements that re-inforce the work of rhetoric. Ceremonial discourse must adapt itself to the social context and must meet the aesthetic expectations of the public and the institution from which it springs. In ceremonial discourse, each institution finds the expression of its values and a self-satisfying image that permits it to proclaim its own grandeur. The man of letters, the parliamentarian and the municipal magistrate all seek to found their social privileges on the concept of professional merit. From the point of view of language and politics, paris and the provinces diverge, but they remain united in an ideology of expansionism of french culture
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Everitt, Charles Kingston. "Eloquence as profession and art : the use of the ars dictaminis in the letters of Gilbert Stone and his contemporaries c1300-c1450." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69a69618-50df-4f27-8291-98546df046eb.
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This thesis is a study of the use of the ars dictaminis (the art of letter-writing) in fourteenth and early fifteenth century England. It has three aims: firstly to examine the extent to which the ars was an integral and important part of professional administration, ecclesiastical and secular; secondly to describe the nature of eloquent epistolary composition and compare this to the traditional requirements of the ars; and thirdly to investigate in the context of the preceding discussion the relationship between medieval rhetoric, middle English literature and renaissance humanism. The well documented career of Gilbert Stone, an episcopal chancellor, is used to initiate a wider investigation into those of his secretarial contemporaries. There is no evidence in later medieval England of a highly self conscious secretarial profession nor of a cult of eloquence. Letter collections point however to the importance of form and style, and an examination of their contents suggests that the rules of the ars. and particularly of the cursus, were used, adapted and developed, sometimes in quite routine documents, but more especially in 'eloquent' letters of persuasion. The ars, it is argued, was more vibrant, flexible and appropriate to its context than later critics have imagined. The ars, notably through Thomas Hoccleve, exercised an influence on poetic form and style; and even in a case such as that of Chaucer where there was not such a strong direct influence, it is possible that the ars may be seen as part of a complex conditioning literary environment. Finally the professional-literary structure underlying the use of the ars provided a motive and a means for the introduction of humanism into England.
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Quennedey, Anne. "Un sublime moderne : l’éloquence de Saint-Just à la Convention nationale (1792-1794)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040254.
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Cette thèse examine les discours et rapports que Saint-Just a prononcés à la Convention nationale en recourant à lacatégorie de sublime, dans l’acception purement littéraire qui procède du traité du Pseudo-Longin, le Peri Hupsous.La première partie étudie l’ouvrage du Pseudo-Longin et accorde une attention particulière aux développements de celivre portant sur l’éloquence de Démosthène et de Cicéron et sur les passages de l’Iliade comportant des enjeux oratoires.Elle confronte ses leçons à celles des théoriciens de l’éloquence et du style oratoire de l’Antiquité. Le sublime ainsiconçu n’est pas l’instauration d’un rapport avec une réalité transcendance, mais l’effet intellectuel et affectif suscité pardes oeuvres littéraires exceptionnelles.La deuxième partie est consacrée à la brève carrière de Saint-Just comme orateur politique. La théorie et la pratique deSaint-Just ont non seulement été envisagées à la lumière de l’idée de l’éloquence qu’expose le Peri Hupsous, mais aussicomparées aux descriptions et aux analyses de son éloquence proposées par ses contemporains et les écrivainsromantiques. En réinscrivant l’éloquence de Saint-Just dans une conception sublime de l’art oratoire, ont pu être réfutésun certain nombre de préjugés hérités du XIXe siècle et dressé un portrait neuf de Saint-Just orateur.La troisième partie propose une édition diplomatique des discours du Conventionnel et des transcriptions nouvelles deses manuscrits de discours.Les annexes comprennent entre autres une iconographie sur l’éloquence révolutionnaire, un ensemble de lettres etd’arrêtés inédits et un court essai testant la fertilité du sublime longinien pour rendre compte d’une oeuvre contemporaineThis doctoral thesis uses the category of sublime as defined by the Pseudo-Longinus in his Peri Hupsous to examine thespeeches of Saint-Just pronounced in the National Convention during the French Revolution.The first part examines the Pseudo-Longinus’ treaty and pays particular attention to pages about the eloquence ofDemosthenes and Cicero and the verses of the Iliad having relevance to the art of oratory. It compares its ideas withthose of ancient theorists of eloquence and oratory style. Longinian sublime is not a relationship with a transcendentreality, but the intellectual and emotional effect caused by exceptional literary works.The second part is devoted to the brief career of Saint-Just as a political orator. Saint-Just’s theory and practice have beenconsidered in the light of the idea of eloquence set out in Peri Hupsous. They have also been compared with descriptionsand analyses of his eloquence proposed by his contemporaries and by romantic writers. A number of prejudices inheritedfrom the nineteenth century have been refuted and a new portrait of Saint-Just as an orator drawn by considering hiseloquence from a sublime conception of oratory.The third part is a diplomatic edition of Saint-Just’s speeches. In order to establish them, reports of his speeches inrevolutionary papers have been consulted. Furthermore, this part comprises new transcriptions of autograph manuscriptsof his speeches.The appendices contain, among others, an iconography of the revolutionary eloquence, a set of Saint-Just’s unpublishedletters and orders and a short essay testing the fertility of longinian sublime to describe a contemporary literary work
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Irvin, Julie Carter. "The Need, Feasibility, and Means of Establishing a Speech Center." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1115.
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According to Tom Shachtman, "the speech of too few people achieves eloquence, and that of the vast majority does not even reach a tolerable level of articulate behavior" (5). Articulate behavior has not always been a rare characteristic; from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century, the study of rhetoric was privileged and considered necessary for a well-rounded education. If today's society is inarticulate, then how can eloquence and articulateness be reintroduced as staples of a successful person in today's society? The answer is easy - through the study of rhetoric. After examining the study of rhetoric from antiquity to the present, I will demonstrate the need for a strong rhetorical education, both Writing Across the Curriculum and Speaking Across the Curriculum (through a Speech Center) programs, a dialogic peer/tutor relationship, and a Speech Center that fits the needs of a university, in order to reverse the downward spiral of eloquence in speech.
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Driller, Albina. "L’éclosion de l’éloquence latine et russe au XVIIIe siècle en Russie et son rôle dans l’évolution du poème héroïque russe." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040218.
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L’aetas ciceroniana, l’âge d’un nouveau style de culture à dominante oratoire, est né en Italie avec Petrarque et s’est prolongé en France au XVIe siècle grâce à un renouveau des disputes sur l’art oratoire et des définitions du meilleur style. L’éclosion de l’éloquence latine en Russie, due à l’activité pédagogique de Théophane Prokopovitch, professeur dès 1705 à l’Académie de Kiev, contribue à la longévité de cette culture. Héritière du discours sur l’imitatio des modèles antiques, caractéristique de la traditon humaniste, la doctrine poétique de Prokopovitch relie l’éloquence à l’usage de l’éthos et à la pratique de l’imitatio de Cicéron et de Virgile, en latin comme en vulgaire. L’évolution du poème héroïque montre la persistence du système des valeurs propre à l’éloquence fondée sur le principe éthique de la coïncidence du dire et du faire. L’ajout aux poèmes de préfaces et de dédicaces dans lesquelles les poètes expriment leurs opinions concernant les propriétés du meilleur style permet la complémentarité entre la théorie et la pratique.Une différence spécifique marque le style de chaque auteur héroïque. Prokopovitch, Kantemir, Lomonossov, Trediakovski, Kheraskov adaptent leur style aux lois génériques du poème héroïque. En rattachant l’éthos encomiastique à l’éthos personnel, les poètes abordent chacun à sa façon l’éloge du monarque. Ils imposent ainsi leur perspective personnelle à la représentation historique et font transparaître un moi qui émet des jugements de valeurThe aetas ciceroniana, the age of a new cultural style dominated by oratory was born in Italy with Petrarch and continued through the 16th century in France as a result of the renewal of disputes about oratorical art and ways of defining good style. The flowering of the Latin eloquence in Russia, which took place thanks to the pedagogical activity of Theophan Prokopovich, professor from 1705 at the Kiev Academy, contributed to the longevity of this culture. Heir to the discourse about the imitatio of the ancient models, characteristic of the humanist tradition, Prokopovich’s poetic doctrine associates eloquence with the use of the ethos and the practice of the imitatio of Cicero and Virgil, both in Latin and in the vernacular. The evolution of heroic poem attests to the persistency of the system of values proper to eloquence which is founded on the ethical principle of the conjunction of words and action. Theory and practice complement each other by addition to the poems of prefaces and dedications in which poets express their opinions about the nature of good style.The heroic style of each author manifests a specific difference. Prokopovich, Kantemir, Lomonosov, Trediakovsky and Kheraskov adapt their style to the generic features of the heroic poem. By joining the encomiastic ethos and the personal ethos, the poets approach each in his own way the encomium of the monarch by imposing their personal perspective on the representation of history, while making personal judgement apparent
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Delon, Jacques. "Le cardinal de retz orateur." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040171.
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Retz n'est pas seulement un memorialiste. Son genie s'est exerce avec un egal bonheur dans l'art de la parole. Orateur, il l'etait necessairement de par sa profession ecclesiastique ; en outre, sa participation active aux troubles de la fronde lui donnerent a maintes reprises l'occasion de prendre la parole en prive ou en public. Cette etude, qui s'inspire d'une conception de l'orateur heritee des anciens, analyse les multiples aspects d'une rhetorique liee au culte de la gloire. Trois grandes parties se dessinent. La premiere regroupe les deliberations en prive des frondeurs. La seconde illustre une eloquence politique qui se deploie au grand jour, celle de l'orateur dans la cite; elle a pour theatre la rue et ses mouvements de foule, la cour, dans le cadre d'une reception officielle, et surtout le parlement, cour de justice transformee en assemblee deliberative a la faveur des evenements. La troisieme partie est consacree a l'eloquence religieuse : controverse, predication, entre tiens sur le cartesianisme. Dans cette eloquence peu connue, l'ambition personnelle rivalise avec la reconnaissance des valeurs spirituelles. Ce travail a pour but de mettre en lumiere le portrait d'un orateur original, par rapport a l'archetype que ciceron definit dans l' orateur. Il devrait aussi permettre de mieux comprendre la personnalite de retz et plusieurs aspects deconcertants de son action et de son oeuvre. Car la rhetorique qui integre dans sa perspective l'homme et l'artiste, en relation avec un public, contribue a une meilleure intelligence du phenomene de creation litteraireNot only is cardinal de retz a memorialist. He also used his genius with equal felicity in the art of the spoken word. He was an orator out of necessity, due to his ecclesiastical profession. In addition to this, his active participation in the party of the fronde often gave him the opportunity of taking the floor both in public and in private. This study in the tradition of the ancient's conception of the orator analyses the many aspects of a rhetoric linked with the cult of glory. Three main parts emerge. The first concerns the private deliberations of the members of the fronde. The second illustrates a political eloquence which brings to light that of the orator in the city. Its stage being the streets, the movements of the crowd, the court, in the setting of an official reception and above all parliament, a court of justice transformed into a deliberative assembly because of the events. The third part deals with religious eloquence: anti-protestant controversy, predication, discussion on cartesianism. In this little known eloquence personal ambition is set against recognition of spiritual values. The aim of this work is to portray an original orator in comparison with the archetype defined by cicero in "the orator". It should also facilitate a better comprehension of the cardinal's personality and several disconcerting aspects of both his actions and his work. For the rhetoric which encompasses withim its perspective the man and the artist in relation to a public contributes to a better understanding of the phenomenon of literary creation
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Palacios, Quiroz Rafael. "La pronuntiatio musicale : une interprétation rhétorique au service de Händel, Montéclair, C. P. E. Bach et Telemann." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040074/document.
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Cette thèse veut contribuer au débat sur l’interprétation historiquement informée : oubliant la question de la prononciation globale de l’oeuvre, l’IHI néglige la dimension rhétorique de l’interprétation musicale, et c’est cette lacune que nous prétendons combler. À partir d’une réflexion sur la théorie de la pronuntiatio rhétorique et en prenant appui sur les principes d’interprétation exposés dans une sélection de traités (C.P.E. Bach, Quantz, Mattheson, L.Mozart), notre réflexion nous amène à proposer ce que nous appelons l’Interprétation Rhétoriquement Informée. L’IRI est définie comme la pratique musicale qui assied ses décisions interprétatives sur des informations contenues dans le corpus des traités de rhétorique et d’art oratoire, des manuels de discours public et des méthodes d’interprétation instrumentale et vocale. La pronuntiatio est envisagée dans ses aspects auditifs et visuels (vox et corpus),ses quatre vertus (puritas, perspicuitas, ornatus et aptum), ainsi que leurs vices et licences respectifs. Notre intention est d’élaborer un ensemble de stratégies rhétoriques modulables par lesquelles l’analyse collabore à l'interprétation en termes de génération d’idées, d’enrichissement et de canalisation de l’imaginaire et d’inscription du geste et de l’énergie appropriés dans la restitution sonore. Cette théorie de la prononciation musicale est appliquée à quatre oeuvres (Händel, Montéclair, Telemann, C.P.E. Bach) : ces exemples de programmes d’interprétation nous permettent d’avancer que la musique de cette époque est par essence éloquente et que son interprétation ne peut le redevenir sans un retour à l’intelligence rhétorique et à ses principes de pronuntiatioThe present dissertation aims to contribute to the debate on Historically Informed Performance: setting aside thequestion of a particular piece’s global pronunciation, HIP ignores the rhetorical dimension of musical interpretation,and it is this specific gap we would fill. Based on a reflection on the rhetorical pronuntiatio theory, and leaning on theprinciples of interpretation as exposed in several selected treaties (C.P.E. Bach, Quantz, Mattheson, L. Mozart), ourreflection leads us to propose what we call the Rhetorically Informed Performance. The RIP is defined as a musicalpractice that grounds its interpretative decisions on information contained in the corpus of rhetorical and oratorial artskill treaties, as well as in public-speaking manuals and methods of vocal and instrumental interpretation. Thepronuntiatio is considered in both its visual and auditory aspects (corpus and vox), its four virtues (puritas, perspicuitas,ornatus and aptum), and their respective vices and licenses. Our intention is to put together a group of adjustablerhetorical strategies enabling the analysis to contribute to the interpretation in terms of the generation of ideas, theenrichment and channeling of imagination, and the inscription of the appropriate movement and energy into thesonorous reproduction. This musical pronunciation theory is applied to four pieces (Händel, Montéclair, Telemann,C.P.E. Bach): these examples of interpretation programs allow us to put forward the idea that the music of thatperiod was in its essence eloquent, and that its interpretation cannot become eloquent again without returning torhetorical intelligence and its principles of pronuntiatio
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Machuret, Jean-Jacques. "Les facteurs de la performance commerciale en formation professionnelle : le cas du néo formateur consultant (NFC)." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CNAM1052/document.
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Les facteurs de la performance commerciale en formation professionnelle, le cas du néo formateur consultant (N.F.C.). Constat empirique : Pendant plus de 10 ans, l’auteur a formé des demandeurs d’emplois (plus de 450). Dans le cadre des enseignements prodigués, une suspicion est née sur l’origine des difficultés des N.F.C. concernant les facteurs de la performance commerciale en formation professionnelle.Posture épistémologique : La finalité de la recherche est d'établir les facteurs de la performance commerciale en formation professionnelle, le cas du N.F.C. La démarche est de type classique, par une approche positiviste, en fonction du mode de recherche empirique et avec une validation du transfert dans l’univers de la formation professionnelle. Le mode de raisonnement qui s'est imposé est la démarche abductive selon un cadre de logique hypothético-déductif avec l'utilisation de la méthode Delphi. Nous concluons ensuite par des recommandations managériales. Schéma des travaux de recherche : Le point de départ est un groupe de 5 N.F.C. par choix aléatoire pour valider la suspicion. Ensuite l’Etat de l’art apporte les définitions, l'élaboration des concepts et la revue de littérature recherche les travaux existants dans le domaine, en France et dans les pays anglo-saxons. Les concepts d'expertise et de confiance sont ainsi mis en évidence. Les hypothèses sont définies par le groupe Delphi (20 experts et 4 tours d’expression des opinions) et validées par l'étude quantitative (301 réponses). Résultat : Cette méthode propose 2 facteurs de succès : la démonstration de l'expertise et le développement du climat de confiance, portés par 4 principaux paramètres influençant les 2 facteurs de succès, La compréhension du problème du client (95%), l'implication (91%), la réalisation d'actions similaires (86%) et la démonstration des méthodes utilisées (77%). Les recommandations managériales éclairées par le groupe d’experts : proposent aux N.F.C. de développer leur charisme et de faire autorité par la maîtrise de la rhétorique. Si le travail le dispute au talent, le N.F.C. verra les facteurs de sa performance commerciale transformer son expérience en expertise et son expertise en revenuThe purpose of this research is to establish factors for commercial performance in the professional training sector, the case of the N.T.C. (Neo Trainer Consultant). Empirical observation: The author has trained job seekers (more than 450) for over 10 years. Through this experience providing lessons, a suspicion arose regarding the origin of the difficulties (N.T.C.) concerning the factors for commercial performance in professional training.Research work plan: The start point is a group of five randomly selected N.T.C. to confirm the suspicion. Then the state of the art bring the definitions, the development of concepts, and the literature review, research the works that already exist in the field in France and in English-speaking countries. The concepts of expertise and confidence are highlighted.The hypotheses are defined by the Delphi group (20 experts and 4 rounds of expressed opinions) and validated by the quantitative study (301 responses). Result: This method offers 2 factors of success: demonstration of the expertise and establishment of the confidence ascribed to the 4 principal parameters influencing 2 factors of success : comprehension of the client's problem (95%), involvement (91%), realisation of similar actions (86%) and demonstration of the methods employed (77%).Managerial recommendations enlightend by the group of experts who suggest to the N.T.C to develop their charisma and authoritativeness by mastering their grasp of rhetoric. If the work creates a conflict between this notion and talent, the N.T.C. will see factors for commercial performance transform his experience into expertise and his expertise into income
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Kubota, Shizuka. "Descartes et l’éloquence de la vérité. Les héritages jésuite et humaniste." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040040.
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La philosophie de Descartes est-elle « une philosophie sans rhétorique »? L’on s’attendrait à ce que le principe de l’évidence qui requiert une transparence totale des idées refuse catégoriquement tout recours à l’art rhétorique fondé sur le vraisemblable et réputé faire obstacle à la vérité nue. Cependant, et malgré ses prises de position, Descartes, ancien élève des jésuites, ne renie pas l’héritage des litterae anciennes. Il s’agit de l’héritage rhétorique des humanistes de la Renaissance dans lequel les Pères jésuites ont considérablement puisé : la formation linguistique de Descartes est allée de pair avec un amour de l’éloquence dans son adolescence. Mais cette éloquence, originairement déployée dans un style d’apparat mu par l’enthousiasme, ne va pas chez le Descartes de l’âge mûr sans être guidée par le souci éthique de ne pas trahir la vérité. Derrière un voile transparent propre à transmettre cette vérité intacte, le philosophe tente à la fois de scruter son for intérieur et de s’insinuer discrètement dans l’esprit d’autrui. La rhétorique est ainsi un moyen indispensable pour donner corps au dialogue de la pensée et de l’écriture cartésiennesIs the philosophy of Descartes “a kind of philosophy without rhetoric”? We might expect that the principle of the evidence, which calls for a total transparency of the ideas, refuses categorically all recourses to the rhetorical art founded on the bounds of credibility and reputed to obstruct the bare truth. However, despite their captures of position, as an old student of the Jesuit, Descartes, doesn’t disown the heritage of the old litterae. It is important to point the rhetorical heritage of the Humanists from which the Jesuit Fathers have considerably drawn: the linguistic formation of Descartes has accompanied with a respect to the eloquence during his adolescence. But this eloquence, originally displayed in the sumptuous style driven by enthusiasm, doesn’t continue until his middle age without being guided by his ethical anxiety not to betray the truth. Behind a transparent veil proper to transmit this intact truth, the philosopher tries both to examine his deep mind and to creep into others’ spirits discreetly. The rhetoric is also an indispensable means in order to embody the dialogue of Cartesian thought and of writings
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Soares, Mascarenhas Rogério. "Le statut de l’éloquence dans la philosophie de David Hume : dépassements spatiotemporels et identitaires à la lumière d’une propédeutique." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAL015/document.
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Quiconque scrute le statut de l’éloquence chez Hume ne peut se dispenser d’interroger les analyses de l’auteur dans le Traité de la nature humaine, tout en accordant une attention soutenue aux Essais moraux, politiques et littéraires, et à l’Enquête sur l’entendement humain. L’examen de la verve au sein de la philosophie humienne peut s’avérer risquée et complexe, d’autant que la fragmentation dans la manière d’aborder le sujet s’accompagne de considérations qui peuvent obscurcir plutôt qu’éclaircir la compréhension d’un certain nombre de problèmes. Le présent travail cherche à démontrer que, chez Hume, l’’éloquence peut être comprise sous le prisme d’une activité délibérée et amusante de « connaissance de soi de l’imagination (esprit), puisque celle-ci se replie sur elle-même lorsqu’elle se représente une myriade d’existences possibles. De cette manière, l’éloquence quitte son statut de pratique risquée et hasardeuse pour se faire la garante d’une propédeutique scientifique, c’est-à-dire d’une discipline d’initiation à la science humienne de l’hommeAnyone who scrutinizes the status of eloquence in Hume cannot dismiss questioning the author's analyses in A Treatise on Human Nature, while paying close attention to the Moral, Political, and Literary Essays, and to An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Examination of the verve within humian philosophy can be risky and complex, especially as the fragmentation in the approach to the subject is accompanied by considerations that may obscure rather than clarify the understanding of a number of problems. This work seeks to demonstrate that, in Hume, eloquence can be understood under the prism of a deliberate and amusing activity of “self-knowledge of the imagination (spirit)”, since it is withdrawn on itself even when it represents a myriad of possible existences. In this way, eloquence abandons its status of risky and hazardous practice to make itself the guarantor of a scientific propaedeutic endeavor, that is to say, a discipline of initiation to the humian science of man
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Bourdier, Camille. "Paléogéographie symbolique au Magdalénien moyen : apport de l'étude des productions graphiques pariétales des abris occupés et sculpté de l'Ouest français (Roc-aux-Sorciers, Chaire-à-Calvin, Reverdit, Cap-Blanc)." Thesis, Bordeaux 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR14174/document.
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En associant un contexte chrono-culturel aux graphismes pariétaux, les abris occupés et sculptés se révèlent être des témoins privilégiés pour aborder la structuration spatio-temporelle du Magdalénien moyen. Fondée sur un travail de relevé analytique, l’étude techno-stylistique de quatre dispositifs pariétaux (Roc-aux-Sorciers, Chaire-à-Calvin, Reverdit, Cap-Blanc) met en lumière un double processus d’unité et de régionalisation. Une tradition de la sculpture pariétale magdalénienne apparaît, inscrite dans la lignée de la sculpture pariétale solutréenne. Deux groupes se distinguent cependant. Le « groupe du Roc-aux-Sorciers » s’étend de la Vienne à l’Est du Périgord. À l’intérieur de celui-ci, les analogies des frises du Roc-aux-Sorciers et de la Chaire-à-Calvin soulèvent la question de leur(s) auteur(s), et au-delà de leurs occupants. Le « groupe de Cap-Blanc » coexiste en Périgord. Cette divergence entre le Roc-aux-Sorciers et Cap-Blanc se retrouve dans le mobilier archéologique. Ces deux groupes symboliques illustreraient-ils plus largement deux groupes socio-culturels ? Enfin, la fonction socio-culturelle des sites à sculpture pariétale est abordée, à travers le choix de la sculpture comme mode d’expression graphique. Au sein des sites ornés de l’Est de la Vienne, la frise sculptée monumentale du Roc-aux-Sorciers fut certainement un art public, associé à de grandes occupations. La frise aurait alors agi comme un élément de cohésion sociale. Elle aurait également pu servir de marqueur territorial face à d’autres populations (groupe de la Garenne ?)Thanks to the association of rock-art and a chrono-cultural context, the occupied and decorated rock-shelters appear to be particularly appropriate to consider the spatio-temporal structuration of the Middle Magdalenian. Based on analytical tracings, the techno-stylistic study of four rock-art sites (Roc-aux-Sorciers, Chaire-à-Calvin, Reverdit, Cap-Blanc) reveals a double process of unity and regionalization. A tradition of the Magdalenian parietal sculpture appears, in the continuity of the Solutrean sculpture. Two groups can be distinguished however. The “Roc-aux-Sorciers group” spreads from Vienne to Eastern Périgord. Inside, the analogies between the Roc-aux-Sorciers and Chaire-à-Calvin friezes raises the question of their author(s), and beyond their inhabitants. The “Cap-Blanc group” coexists in Périgord. The difference between Roc-aux-Sorciers and Cap-Blanc is also found in the archaeological material. Could these symbolic groups illustrate two socio-cultural groups?Finally, the socio-cultural function of sculptured sites is tackled through the choice of sculpture. Inside the decorated sites of Eastern Vienne, the monumental sculptured frieze of Roc-aux-Sorciers rock-shelter certainly was public art, associated with large occupations. Then the frieze would have acted as an element of social cohesion. It could also have served as a territorial mark facing other populations (La Garenne group?)
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García-Garrido, Manuela-Águeda. "La prédication de Carême à Séville au temps de la Contre-Réforme (1586-1700)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040186.
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Au lendemain du concile de Trente, le Carême, quarante jours de pénitence et de méditation, devint le cycle liturgique le plus important pour l’Église catholique. On prêchait davantage à ce moment et on s’adressait aux fidèles pour les instruire, réprouver leurs mœurs et aborder de nombreuses controverses théologiques. À Séville, depuis 1586, la prédication de Carême envisageait un projet de réforme moral posant les bases d’un modèle de « société confessionnelle ». À partir de l’analyse de 117 sermons de Carême et d’une documentation hétérogène (visites pastorales, libros de despachos, correspondance, récits de missions, biographies de religieux, histoires ecclésiastiques…), nous étudions la façon dont la prédication de Carême a contribué au développement d’une spiritualité hétérodoxe, qui a mis à l’épreuve les objectifs fixés par la Contre-RéformeAfter the Council of Trent, Lent—forty days of penitence and meditation—became the most important liturgical cycle for the Catholic Church. The faithful began to receive more instruction, which intended to teach them, reprimand them for their mores, and address numerous theological controversies. Starting in 1586, Lent preaching in Seville attempted to enat a project of moral reform that would lay the foundations of a “confessional society model”. Here, an analysis of 117 Lent sermons and heterogeneous sources (e.g., pastoral visits, libros de despachos, correspondence, mission narratives, biographies of religious figures, church histories) addresses the ways in which Lent preaching contributed to the development of a heterodox spirituality that challenged the goals set by the Counter-Reformation
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Sueur, Agathe. "Le Frein et l’aiguillon : éloquence musicale et nombre oratoire. Allemagne et Italie, 1600-1750." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040265.
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Cette thèse, motivée par les recherches récentes sur la « rhétorique musicale », étudie le nombre éloquent, notion aux nombreuses ramifications dans les domaines oratoire et poétique, encore peu examinée dans le champ musical. L’approche est philologique, comparatiste et historique, et vise à déterminer dans quelle mesure, entre 1600 et 1750, les modes d’approche et de perception du nombre en poésie et dans l’art oratoire ont eu leur équivalent en musique, en Italie (jésuite essentiellement) et en Allemagne. Après une mise en perspective de la culture des spécialistes de musique, partagée entre rhétorique scolaire et éloquence adulte, l’examen du découpage conceptuel opéré par les Anciens entre oratio vincta et soluta permet d’identifier des modes de composition, d’écoute et de prononciation du discours musical vocal et instrumental. La perception de la stricte récurrence propre à la musique métrique (vincta) contraste avec celle de la bigarrure variée de la musique « en prose » (soluta), et les approches érudites et néophytes diffèrent. Au plan micro-structurel, les périodes musicales sont abordées à l’instar des périodes oratoires. Selon qu’elles sont « arrondies » ou « articulées », elles mettent en œuvre le nombre grâce aux rythmes, à la conduite harmonieuse et à un travail de structuration par amplification. L’écriture périodique apparaît comme un principe fondamental de composition. La réflexion sur l’éloquence du nombre en musique s’inscrit finalement dans le débat touchant le meilleur style. Tenants de la brièveté musicale et partisans de l’abondance s’opposent, appliquant au domaine musical les réflexions sur le laconisme, l’atticisme et l’enflureThis dissertation was undertaken in the wake of the recent research about musical rhetoric and focuses on the rhetorical number, a concept of acknowledged significance in the field of oratory and poetry that as yet has seldom been examined in the field of music. Following a philological, comparative and historical approach, the present study aims at determining to what extent the modes of perception and approach of the numerus in poetry and rhetoric had counterparts in music in Italy (mainly among the Jesuits) and Germany between 1600 and 1750. The study first deals with the culture of music specialists, which relates partly to scholastic rhetoric and partly to mature eloquence, and then investigates the conceptual division set by the Ancients between oratio vincta and soluta, so as to show that such division makes it possible to delineate the composition and listening and pronunciation processes of musical discourse, both vocal and instrumental. Perception of the strict recurrence that is specific to metrical music (vincta) contrasts with the heterogeneous variety of « prose »music (soluta) and it differs among scholars and novices. As for the microstructures of discourse, musical periods are tackled similarly to oratorical periods. Whether they are « rounded » or « articulated », they become rhythmical thanks to metrical feet or harmonious structure as well as processes of amplification. Periodical style appears fundamental to composition. The present dissertation eventually shows that the discussion of musical oratio numerosa is related to the impassioned debate over the best musical style (brevity, abundance, laconism, atticism and bombast)