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  • New Zetetic Method for English Composition: Series of Progressive Exercises containing imitations of fables, legends, poems, &c., amplifications, letters, narrations, descriptions, speeches, etc.

    Document thumbnail: New Zetetic Method for English Composition: Series of Progressive Exercises containing imitations of fables, legends, poems, &c., amplifications, letters, narrations, descriptions, speeches, etc.
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    Description/Abstract:
    1847 printing of the 1847 copyrighted work. Roux is credited as Professor of French Language and Literature in the Mount Pleasant Academy, and as the author of "The Zetetic Method, or Easiest Method of Learning French." The text does not aspire to rhetoric for mature minds, but is rather a "first book." The method is influenced by Aristotle who argues youth should be taught composition through rewriting fables in verse into prose. Cicero and Quintilian are also quoted on the value of given pupils the ideas and structure for them to modestly amplify or adorn. The exercises in the book are meant to be written ex tempore in class. The sections of the book are: imitation of fables (2), imitation of legends and poems, amplifications and letters, and arguments. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete text and includes the first few pages of "New Zetetic Method for English and French Composition"
    Creator/Author:
    Roux, Alphonse A.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    03/13/2020
    Date Created:
    1847
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0