To excite or to appease? Epic oration and tragic oration in Jean de la Taille and Pierre de Ronsard’s Remonstrances (1562)
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: L’Année ronsardienne
2021, n° 3. varia - Author: Noirot (Corinne)
- Pages: 93 to 119
- Journal: The Year of Ronsard
La Taille responded to Ronsard in the fight against civil war. The tragic register aims in La Taille’s Remonstrance to subdue; the epic register in that of Ronsard aims to rally. First of all, the declarative structures differ (legitimizing ethos). The allegory then proceeds in a figurative style that is either tragic or epic (mobilizing pathos). Finally, Ronsard constructs an epic lexicon (enemy, reconquest), while La Taille constructs a tragic one (victims, prayer): unifying logos.
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- ISBN: 978-2-406-11146-7
- EAN: 9782406111467
- ISSN: 2592-6977
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11146-7.p.0093
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 02-22-2021
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French
- Keyword: Ronsard, remonstrance, discourse, tragedy, La Taille
