History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

Autor:	Alejandro Cheirif Wolosky
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Literature Literary genre Fable business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Rhetoric Political history Rhetorical question Art business Intellectual history media_common Plural
Zdroj:	International Journal of Literature and Arts. 2:16
ISSN:	2331-0553
DOI:	10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.14
Popis:	This article provides an insight into the notion of history as a literary genre. It argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the concept of “history” was mostly employed in its plural form: “the stories” and not “history” were the predominant form of the concept of history. These “stories” were related to the ancient Ciceronian rhetorical and moral tradition of history as Magistra Vitae (history as life's teacher) and were considered part of the so-called belles-lettres or “literature”.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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