Das Gespräch in seiner Inszenierung und Darstellung. Emotionales Sprechen im Briefroman zwischen rhetorischer und poetischer Praxis

Rhetorik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Marie Lange
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts ◽  
Principle Of Divergence

AbstractWith regard to the historical »quarrel« between rhetoric and poetic concepts, this essay, firstly, reports the linguistic, literary and social innovations in letter-writing during the 18th-century. The letter writer’s fictitious role-play between the addressee and himself leads to a detailed description of body language as to further emotionalizing strategies. Thus, literary concepts linked to the letter are in demand which bring the epistolary novel into play. In a comparison of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1787) and Ugo Foscolo’s Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1817) it will be shown that the staged conversation between letter writer and addressee and the represented conversation between the letter writer and another character follow the same conversational attitude for each novel: either the principle of sympathy or the principle of divergence. This can be partly explained by a different historical development of aesthetic concepts in Germany and Italy. Besides, the different way of communicating emotions can be also attributed to the epistemic presuppositions: a mimesis which refers to naturalness is in opposition with an autonomous mimesis that breaks with the former tradition.

Samuel Richardson and the Epistolary Novel

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dussinger
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Direct Discourse ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
Indirect Discourse ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
The Individual

Despite having turned 50 before publishing his first novel, Samuel Richardson’s literary career began already in his youth as a precocious letter-writer and developed during the 1720s after launching his London printing business. Richardson’s letter-writing style stresses continual flux as living experience, and this emphasis on temporality is continued in his three experimental ‘histories’ of characters struggling under the pressure of momentary perceptions. As a ‘dramatic’ novel, Clarissa exploits the resources of theatrical presentation as direct discourse and of narrative storytelling as indirect and free indirect discourse. Its epistolary form obviates an omniscient narrator and, except for an occasional ‘editor’, depends wholly on the individual voices that comprise piecemeal the story. This focus on temporality, however, has ultimately a religious and moral dimension: beyond the sound and the fury of present time is an intimation of eternal order.

Ancient Approaches to Letter-Writing and the Configuration of Communities through Epistles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorsten Fögen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Pliny The Younger ◽  
The Social ◽  
Letter Writer

The chapter explores reflections on the practice of letter-writing, with equal attention to instructional handbooks (esp. Demetrius’ Περὶ ἑρμηνείας‎, Iulius Victor’s Rhetorica, Pseudo-Demetrius’ Τύποι ἐπιστολικοί‎, Pseudo-Libanius’ Ἐπιστολιμαῖοι χαρακτῆρες‎, and Erasmus of Rotterdam’s De conscribendis epistolis) and the meta-generic statements that letter-writers routinely embed in their correspondence (with a special focus on Cicero, Ovid, Seneca, and Pliny the Younger). In both types of sources, what one might call the social dimension of style registers as a primary concern: in order for the letter to fulfil its purpose, namely to generate a special bond between sender and recipient, the chosen idiolect has to be ‘appropriate’ (πρέπον‎/aptum) to the interpersonal relationship and its specific circumstances and exigencies. Shared stylistic values and the willingness of the letter-writer to adjust his character to that of the recipient generate a sense of community between the correspondents.

scholarly journals Cultural-Historical Development of Landscape Space of Klein-Vielen

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Aija Ziemelniece
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
Transformation Processes

The landscape of the maritime lowland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) is characterized by a slightly wavy terrain with advanced agricultural activities. There are several lakes around Neubrandeburg and the Neustrelitz area, the shores of which form a picturesque landscape that fostered the development of manor centres already in the 20th century due to the appearance of small rural villages around them. Within a distance of 7-10 km, several manor centres have been preserved in this area, which obviously can enhance successful development of the tourism infrastructure. That is especially true for cycling. The landscape space of the former manor Klein Vielen has been studied in detail, as well as its transformation processes taking place from the 18th century to the present time. The study presents not only the evaluation of relevant issues, but also offers scenarios for the development of the existing cultural -historical landscape space.

scholarly journals L'épistolier au féminin au XVIIIe siècle : Lettres d’une Péruvienne de Mme de Graffigny

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Mª Angeles Sánchez Hernández
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
Considerable Success ◽  
Xviiie Siècle ◽  
Xviiie Siecle

En este artículo presentamos un análisis de la obra de Mme de Graffigny Lettres d’une Péruvienne (1747), novela que tuvo un éxito considerable en el momento de su publicación, aunque presentaba unas tesis altamente críticas sobre la situación de la mujer en la sociedad de la Ilustración. Situaremos nuestro análisis de la obra en el contexto de la novela epistolar francesa del siglo XVIII. Destacamos los elementos que consideramos innovadores en este trabajo en relación con el género al que pertenece. In this article we present an analysis of the work of Mme de Graffigny Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1747), a novel which was a considerable success at the time of its publication, although it presented a thesis on the situation of women in Lumière's highly critical society. We situate our analysis of the work in the context of the epistolary novel in France in the 18th century. We highlight the elements that we consider innovative in this work in relation to the genre to which it belongs.

Paul the Letter Writer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Dingeldein
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
The Ideal

This essay focuses on the social functions of Paul’s letter writing activities, with the purpose of helping to situate such activities within the landscape of ancient Mediterranean epistolography and religion. After briefly identifying major areas of interest in recent research on Paul’s letter writing activities, the author examines the ways in which Paul’s epistolary practices advanced his goals in social positioning, community building, and virtue cultivation among Christ recruits. Letters were understood within classical antiquity to facilitate conversations among friends, reveal a writer’s character, and provide clear and concise instruction on a given subject. Letter writing also often contributed to the social capital of a letter’s author, insofar as letter writing displayed skills in literacy and textual production. Each of these epistolary functions would have advanced Paul’s goals regarding social positioning, community building, and moral development, thus making letters the ideal written medium for Paul to use in his apostolic activities.

“Saying thes woordes or the lyke”

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-211
Author(s):  
Mel Evans
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Speech Representation ◽  
Letter Writer ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Early English ◽  
Communicative Context

This chapter examines the forms and functions of speech representation in Early Modern English correspondence using corpus-based methods. It considers how the sociopragmatic properties of speech representation are shaped by the communicative context of letter-writing, and identifies key similarities and differences with speech representation in other early modern genres. Using a sixteenth-century subset of the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, the analysis focusses on speech representation framed by the two most frequent quotatives: SAY and ANSWER. The results suggest that speech representation in letters anticipates the practices of later written genres, such as news reporting, as well as displaying characteristics associated with speech representation in spoken genres, such as conversation. Speech representation in correspondence has a predominantly interpersonal function, linked to values associated with report faithfulness, dramaticality, and the source authority. Reporting practices are informed both by the conventions of the genre and the immediate situation of the letter-writer.

scholarly journals Concepts of moral education in Poland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Stefan Konstańczak
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Current Model ◽  
The Subject

Abstract In this article the author presents the contemporary understanding of the subject of moral education. Furthermore, he presents the historical development of the concept of moral education in Poland. He concludes that the current model of moral education in Poland was developed as early as the 18th century.

scholarly journals PLANIGRAPHY AND TYPOLOGICAL CARACTERYSTYC OF GLASS ITEMS FROM AKKERMAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
S. O. Biliaieva ◽  
O. Ye. Fialko
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Military History ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military

Archaeological materials of Belgorod-Akkerman cause great interest as the monument of different civilizations, the interrelations of which in the field of the material culture, not enough study yet. Take in attention the perspectives of planigraphic analyse, which was accepted earlier on the base of the glasses for architectural reconstructions of the Turkish bathhouse, the article is the first attempt to represent the results of complex analyse of the glass things (nearby 1000 exemplars), which were founded on the whole square of the excavations of the expedition of 1999—2010. On the base of the two main parameters: planigraphy and typology of the findings in the buildings of the Low yard of the fortress the fact of the interrelation of artefacts with historical development of various structures was established. Some differences in using the glass artefacts in the bathhouse and barbican were admitted. The new page of the military history of Akkerman of the 18th century became the mass findings of fragments of glass grenades, which have been led to the destruction of the barbican.

scholarly journals Old geology library of the Belgrade Higher School and University of Belgrade

2017 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Grubic ◽  
Milica Surla ◽  
Marina Bukavac
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The World

A review of the beginning and historical development of one of the oldest geology libraries of Higher schools in the world that was founded in 1880. The archive of the library, which includes over 72,000 library units, with nearly 1,000 journal titles from all around the world and monographs going back to 18th century, testifies to the significance of this institution.

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