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The Notion of Eikos Within Conspiracy Theories. A Rhetorical Analysis
2022
Based on the analysis of one specific conspiracy theory, this paper will explore, from the rhetorical framework, the antic concept of likelihood [eikos]. Indeed, we believe that the rhetorical approach could allow us, on a larger scale, to (re)question, in the light of contemporary challenges, the complex relationship we have with the notions of rationality and truth. More precisely, to proceed with the rhetorical analysis, we will mobilise two types of logical reasoning: first, “the logic of the pot” argument from pragmatic logic and second, the logic of amplification and poetization of discourse. This will allow us to draw some comparisons between conspiracist speeches and, respectively, …
Non tamen indignum Borgaei dicere laudes/ Caesaris? (T. Strozzi, Serm. 1, 120-1) : L?éloge épique de César Borgia dans l??uvre d?Ercole Strozzi (Ferr…
2017
Resume: La poesie hexametrique d’E. Strozzi, poete neolatin fort prise pour sa maitrise de la versification et son innutrition achevee des sources latines, offre deux apologies de Cesar Borgia. L’une, breve (d’une soixantaine de vers), incluse dans un epyllion cynegetique de plus de 900 vers, campe le Valentinois de son vivant en chasseur et conquerant magnanime. L’autre prend la forme d’un long epicede (492 v.). Certes E. Strozzi applique dans ce poeme funebre epidictique les conventions du genre (lamentations, eloge du defunt, exhortation et consolation a la dedicataire, Lucrece Borgia, duchesse de Ferrare), toutefois le choix de l’hexametre et le recours systematique aux procedes et aux …
Humanist Neo-Latin Drama in France
2013
Neo-Latin humanist drama in France offers a fairly modest corpus of texts compared to the production in the rest of Europe. Moreover, humanist drama composed in Latin is not very well known; Latin plays, mostly written by teachers or students in colleges, have for a long time remained in the shadow of vernacular mystery plays, farces and moralities on the one hand, and, from the 1550s onwards, of the first tragedies and comedies written in French on the other. French dramatic writing in the sixteenth century is characterized first of all by the important place occupied by a theatre which was long called 'popular' and 'medieval', but which reached its full maturity between 1450 and 1550. The…
Isocrates on paradoxical discourse
2013
It has long been stated that, in Isocrates' Helen, there seems to be an open contradiction between the author's harsh criticism of logoi paradoxoi and the simple fact that his own encomia of Helen and Busiris appear to be specimens of that very genre. Traditionally, this contradiction has been explained by Isocrates' need to distanciate his own work from that of his predecessors. This paper undertakes a different approach. Isocrates' criticism of paradoxographic literature is based upon observations about what is and what is not allowed in moral epideictic discourse. Isocrates' specific instructions about proper and improper moral argumentation can function as hermeneutical tool to analyze …
Politics of Parliamentary Government
2018
The chapter takes up the powers of the parliamentary government, its historical formation in Westminster and the parliamentary control of administration by rhetorical means. The parliamentary polity includes the various power struggles both in parliament and of parliament with government and administration of a polity. The vote of no confidence and a wider repertoire of tools for parliamentary control and oversight of both government and the bureaucracy around it will be discussed. This aspect illustrates the relevance of procedure and rhetoric as inherent to the parliamentary type of government. Reducing parliamentarism to the government vs. opposition divide tends to alter the rhetorical …