Writing the Scene of Speaking: Theories of Dialogue in the Late Italian RenaissanceStanford University Press, 1989 - 297 páginas The 'rediscovery' in sixteenth-century Italy of Aristotle's Poetics marks a crucial moment in the development of Western thought about literature, for the flood of new and controversial works that accompanied this event laid the foundations of modern literary criticism and theory. This is a study of the main literary theories of the late Italian Renaissance that seek to define a poetics of dialogue. The author contends that dialogue - among the most popular of all prose forms in Italy to develop a new theory of literature, because it seems to subvert the conventional Renaissance understanding of what is 'literary' and what is not. With its close ties to dialectic and to Platonic philosophy on the one hand, and its equally vital links to imaginative fiction on the other, dialogue in the Renaissance stands at the crossroads of the discourses of cognition and fiction. Writing the Scene of Speaking examines the different solutions offered by sixteenth-century Italian theorists to the problem posed by the hybrid textuality of dialogue, and sets them in the context of a culture in a dramatic state of transition. |
Contenido
The Problem of Dialogue in the Late Italian Renaissance | 1 |
Sigonios Theory | 39 |
Speroni and the Dialogical | 87 |
Castelvetro and Tasso | 134 |
The Poetics and Pragmatics | 181 |
Notes | 217 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ancient antiquity Apologia dei Dialoghi argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's Castelvetro century characters Cicero Cinquecento cognition comedy comic conversation cose Counter-Reformation culture d'Aristotele decorum defined dell'arte del dialogo dialectic dialogical representation dialogical scene dialogical text dialogical writing dialogist dialogo liber diegesis diegetic diegetic dialogue Discorso dell'arte discussion disputation elocutio enargeia esthetic fiction figure genre humanist ideas imitation Italian Renaissance Italy kind language late Italian Renaissance late Renaissance literary theory literature Lodovico Castelvetro logic logue Lucian Manso means mimesis mimetic mode narration narrative nature opinion Pallavicino passage philosophical Plato Plato's dialogues poem poet poetics of dialogue poetry problem of dialogue proposition prose quale question reader reading remarks rhetoric Saint-Mard scene of speaking Sigonio sixteenth sixteenth-century Socrates speakers Sperone Speroni Speroni structure style Tasso Tasso's theory textual theoretical theorists theory of dialogue thought tion Torquato Tasso tragedy trans treatise truth vestibule Weinberg writing dialogue