The Diary and the Epistolary Form

2016 ◽  
pp. 91-110
Keyword(s):  
Epistolary Form

Petrarch's Defense of Secular Letters, the Latin Fathers, and Ancient Roman Rhetoric

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Keyword(s):  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
The Church ◽  
Roman Rhetoric

Abstract: Like the Church Fathers before him, Petrarch was forced to defend secular learning against its detractors, and his defenses draw on many of the same arguments that Augustine and Jerome had used. In these defenses he blends classical rhetoric and Christian values, and his procedures also follow the traditions of classical rhetoric, relying on the epistolary form and utilizing the Ciceronian manner of debating all topics from opposite standpoints. Perhaps, however, because his indecisiveness complemented the classical rhetorical premise that many issues present many possible resolutions, Petrarch also rejects secular learning in some of his writings. His arguments are therefore conclusive only within their unique rhetorical situations.

Кыргыз адабиятындагы эпистолярдык форма жана анын табияты

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Г.С. Бакирова
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Epistolary Form

Аннотация: Изилдөөгө алынган кыргыз адабият таануусунда аталган тема боюнча атайын изилдөөлөрдүн жоктугу эпистолага жанрдык түр же форма катары атайын конкреттүү баа берилбей келаткандыгы бул проблемага көз салууга түрткү берди. Аталган макалада “эпистоляр” сөзүнүн терминдик мааниси, эпистоланын дүйнөлүк адабияттагы орду аныкталды. Орус адабиятындагы эписто ланын изилдениши, орус адабий чыгармаларында жанр катары калыптангандыгы каралды. Ошону менен бирге эпистоланын поэтикасы, кыргыз адабиятындагы эпистолярдык форма түшүнүгү, анын согуш жылдарындагы көркөм чыгармаларда ыкма катары колдонулгандыгы тууралуу сөз болду. Эпистолярдык форманын кыргыз адабиятындагы калыптануусу, табияты жөнүндө маалымат берилди. Түйүндүү сөздөр: эпистолярдык жанр, эпистола, нааме, эпистолярдык форма, поэзия, проза, композициялык элемент, поэтика, эпистола адабияты, адресат, автордук дилбаян, кат, эпистола табияты, лиризм, драматизм, поэтикалык кеп. Аннотация: В данной статье рассматривается толкование термина “эпистола” и его место в мировой литературе, а также становление данного жанра в русской литературе. Анализируется формирование понятия эпистола, его природа в кыргызской литературе как формы изложения произведения. Рассматривается понятие эпистола и его использование в годы ВОВ в кыргызской литературе. Ключевые слова: эпистолярный жанр, эпистола, нааме, эпистолярная форма, поэзия, проза, композиционный элемент, литературная эпистола, адресат, авторское сочинение, письмо, природа эпистолы, лиризм, драматизм, поэтическая речь. Аnnotation: This article discusses the term «epistle», nature epistles and its formation in Kyrgyz literature as a form of presentation of the content of the work. Key words: epistolary, epistle, epistolary form, poetry, prose, compositional element, literary epistles, destination, authors essay, letter, nature epistles, lyricism, drama, poetic speech

This Present Absence: The Generative Power of Epistolary Form

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Jessie van Eerden
Keyword(s):  
Generative Power ◽  
Epistolary Form

Varen'ka Dobroselova: An Experiment in the Desentimentalization of the Sentimental Heroine in Dostoevskii's Poor Folk

Slavic Review ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-533
Author(s):  
Gary Rosenshield
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Sentimental Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
Comic Fiction

Ever since its publication the success of Fedor Dostoevskii's first novel Poor Folk has been ascribed primarily to the characterization of its “naturalistic” hero, Makar Devushkin, not to its sentimental heroine, Varen'ka Dobroselova. Although critics have continued to discover new merits in Poor Folk, in the end it is Devushkin who dominates the novel and on whom, in one way or another, most of its virtues depend. Not only is Devushkin the protagonist, he is also at the center of the novel's important innovations in style, theme, and characterization. Dostoevskii took the poor copying clerk, a type that for a decade had been used as a stock device—and most often the butt—of Russian comic fiction, and transformed him into the hero of a tragi-comic sentimental novel. This transformation was much abetted by Dostoevskii's use of the epistolary form— a form common to the sentimental novel of the eighteenth century, but long outdated in Russia by the 1840s—for it permitted the hero to tell his own story and, by so doing, to reveal the sensitive human being behind the comic mask.

IV. Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 19-24
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Difference ◽  
Snake Bites ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
Ars Amatoria

If the Heroides are an adaptation of the elegiac tradition to the epistolary form, then the Ars and Remedia are an adaptation to the didactic, with the crucial difference that, unlike the poetic epistle, the didactic poem had a clearly defined tradition and (in Virgil) a distinguished recent practitioner. The Hesiodic tradition had been enlarged by the Alexandrians to include the learned scientific, and had more recently been debased by the inclusion of the trivial (Tr. 2. 471 ff.), and it is important to see where Ovid stands. Superficially, the Ars Amatoria is on a par with practical poems like that of Ovid’s contemporary Grattius on hunting, and the Remedia Amoris has affinities with medical works like Macer’s on the cures for snake-bites; but the use of the didactic form for such an untraditional subject as love creates ‘a pleasing atmosphere of burlesque’.

scholarly journals Application of Langinus’ Resources of Sublimity in Amish Tripathi’s the Immortals of Meluha

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4736-4738
Keyword(s):  
The Sublime ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
Breaking Work

Longinus, besides being one of the most famous ancient philosophers, contributed enormously to the field of art and literature; his concept of ‘Sublime’ which he introduced in his path-breaking work ‘On the Sublime’, written in epistolary form and addressing Posthunius Terentianus, has constantly been used to evaluate literature over the years. This paper studies Amish Tripathi’s ‘The Immortals of Meluha’, the first of the three novels of his Shiva Trilogy, using the five parameters that Longinus set forth to appraise if a work of literature has achieved sublimity or not. Written in simple, yet effective language, the fantasy retelling of the story of Indian mythological God Lord Shiva, The Immortals of Meluha has uplifting thoughts and the capacity to kindle readers’ emotions which Longinus propagated as two of the major qualities of sublime writing.

scholarly journals Luciano e a experimentação biográfica: filosofia e religião

2013 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Pedro Ipiranga Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Lucian Of Samosata ◽  
Biographical Account ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
False Prophet ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
A Current ◽  
Religious Aspect

The purpose of this work is based on the following issues: how the religious aspect is focused on biographical works and what constitutes its function; how religious discourse interferes with conception of the genre of biographical and literary prose from the perspective of Lucian of Samosata. For that we will use as a benchmark for our analysis some conceptions about the religious phenomenon in works with biographical tone of Isocrates, Plato and Xenophon, in order to check how Lucian resumes and refigure issues there proposed. In a kind of biographical account and in epistolary form, Lucian somehow promotes a mimesis (here in the sense of a critical refiguring) of reports of Bios, in which he enacts a moral action figure, syncretizes or juxtaposes philosophical adhesion and religious belief. In the biographical works of Lucian: The passing of Peregrinus, Alexander the false prophet, Demonax and somehow Nigrinus, ‘conversion to a current philosophical’ concerns a pathos in the discourse, which is staged so explicitly dramatized and therefore undergo a treatment critical. Thus, we treat this work in order to delineate the constitution of pathos of biographical discourse and status of a distinctive literary biographical prose linked to religious and philosophical questions.

scholarly journals T. Smollett’s Epistolary Novel ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker’

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-80
Author(s):  
Sergei Valentinovich Testsov
Keyword(s):  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
Literary Portraits ◽  
Epistolary Form

This article provides a brief analysis of Tobias Smollett’s ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,’ which is considered to be his best novel. Similar episodes and literary portraits had been featured in his previous works, but the epistolary form, used exclusively in this novel, contributed to lively and extremely convincing characters, as well as vivid and picturesque descriptions.

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