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    Nouvelle rhétorique et éducation. Le cas du Télémaque de Fénelon
    (2018-01-18) Collinet, Françoise
    The New Rhetoric assigns a new role to epideictic: it becomes the foundation of other rhetorical genres. But this revalorization of epideictic also causes another important change: educative discourse, which is linked with epideictic genre, must also be included in the field of argumentation. Fénelon's Télémaque (1699) is considered here as an example of specic argumentative functioning. On the one hand, the text can be read as a simple story. On the other hand, commentators agree as to the identication of a persuasive intention which is neatly delimited: the reformation of Louis XIV's grandson. The present contribution proposes to study the argumentative strategies used in this Bildungsroman ad usum delni. Marivaux's Télémaque travesti (1714) will serve the purpose of examining a strategy of parodic refutation in the perspective of argumentative techniques.