The Classical Theory of Composition: From Its Origins to the Present: a Historical Survey

ancient Aristotle arrangement Attic Atticists baroque basic Batteux Beauzée Beauzée's Bouhours brevitas Brunot c'est century Cicero Ciceronian clarity classical clauses clausula complement compositio composition Condillac constructio construction coupé critics Croll Demetrius Dionysius Dionysius of Halicarnassus direct order discourse distinction elements elocution Encyclopédie English essay example expression françoise French grammar grammarians Grammatica Greek harmony hyperbaton Ibid inversion isocolon Isocrates Italian l'ordre language langue Latin Lettre lingua linguistic literary logical Marsais matter medieval method modern modistae natural naturel notion oratio Orator oratory ordo ordre ornatus Paris passage patterns period Peter Helias Philodemus phrase plain style poetic poetry polemic Port-Royal position principle Priscian prose qu'il quae Quintilian quod rational rationalistic rhetoric rhythm Roman Seneca sense sentence structure sequence speech Stoic style coupé stylistic syntactic syntax Tacitus term theory thought tion traditional treatise Vaugelas verb word order