Download or read book Dispositio written by Paul J. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical "dispositio," this study gives new interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance (Rabelais, Du Bellay, Montaigne and others). The often problematic ordering of these texts is studied from a variety of perspectives, historical, theoretical and cultural.