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Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies
Volume 5(1), 1995

 
CONTENTS
 
Zimmerman, Eugenia N. Managing chaos: Dea fortuna in classical antiquity and in the medieval world. 1-16
 
  This paper will consider various avatars of the allegorical figure of the goddess Fortune, descendant--by assimilation--of Tyche, the Greek goddess of Chance, and ancestress of our modern "Lady Luck."  
 
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Saim, Mirela Profanas vocum novitates et sensuum: Abaelard's collatio and its rhetorical genre. 17-29
 
  In wonderfully balanced Latin periods, all the more oddly venomous, Saint Bernard described Abelard's disturbing non-conformity: sine regula monachus, sine sollicitudine praellatus, sine disciplina abbas 
 
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Doutrelepont, Charles Les lois d'amour: Filles, vices et figures de rhetorique. 31-48
 
  A Toulouse, en 1327, un docteur en droit, maitre Guilhelm Molinier, entreprend de rediger les lois qui devaient regir, dans les pays de langue d'oc, la composition des poemes 
 
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Ronquist, Eyvind C. Rhetoric and early modern skepticism and pragmatism. 49-75
 
  This paper seeks definition and historical grounding for a method of reluctant judgment and practical enquiry that comes to be observable in literature of the later fourteenth century 
 
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Robinson, James E. Rhetoric and representation: Shakespeare and the theatre-world metaphor. 77-93
 
  What I propose in this essay is a rhetorical way of approaching what is a central and pervasive motif in Shakespeare's drama, that is, the consciousness within the artistry of the plays of their function as representations of the reality of the world 
 
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Stanivukovic, Goran V. Hyperbole at the Rose theatre. 95-108
 
  Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great (Part 1) and Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI demonstrate, in different ways, the rhetorical and tonal effects of blank verse 
 
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Maillet, Gregory "To glad your ear and please your eyes": Medieval and Renaissance rhetoric in Shakespeare's Pericles. 109-124
 
  Distinctions between medieval and Renaissance rhetoric, like distinctions between many medieval and Renaissance concepts, derive more from material circumstance--such as the practical demands of medieval preaching or letter writing (Murphy) or Renaissance humanist politics (Rivers 129)--rather than from the relatively continuous classical theory that informs both periods 
 
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