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William M. Purcell.
Ars Poetriae: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy.
Published Columbia, SC: South Carolina U.P., 1996.
Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication.
ISBN 1570030596;
ISBN-13: 9781570030598.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 157x235x19mm.
Page count: vii, 193pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition: the dustjacket on this copy has some scuffs and scratches but is not too heavily worn, some residue from medium-sized stickers on both front and back panels; a black felt-tip mark to the top edge of the pages, otherwise the book itself is in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £20.00
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[Publisher’s price $39.95]
Weight without packaging: 526g.

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A study of the major 13th-century rhetorical manuals (does not include editions of the texts).

Contents: Ancient rhetoric & grammar — orality vs literacy; Absorption & inversion; Auctores poetriarum; Matthew of Vendôme's Ars versificatoria; Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria nova & Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi; John of Garland's De arte prosayca, metrica et rithmica; Gervasius of Melkley's Ars poetica; Eberhard the German’s Laborintus.
Appendices: Rhetorical figures; Grammatical figures.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 3
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 8pp
Index: yes

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