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Mirrors for the Queen: A Letter from Christine de Pizan on the Eve of Civil War
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McCormick, Samuel – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
As a rhetorical figure, the example is constitutively split between the structural vocations of the Greek "paradeigma" (emphasizing illumination and belonging) and the Latin "exemplum" (emphasizing detachment and exclusion). This bifurcation enables the example to function as a strategic resource of ambiguity. Christine de…
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