Artikel
"She must be a rare one" : Aspasia, "Corinne" and the improvisatrice tradition
Verfasst von:
Ianetta, Melissa
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New York:
2008
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92 - 108 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Ianetta, Melissa |
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| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Improvisation was long the apex of the arts of eloquence, yet modern scholars ignore its importance as a rhetorical and literary genre, thereby severing a long-enduring connection between rhetorical and literary history. This essay reads Plato’s Menexenus to formulate a theory of improvisational rhetoric around the cultural position of Aspasia, a foreign woman renowned for eloquence in Periclean Athens. It then places this construction of improvisation alongside Germaine de Staël’s early-nineteenth-century novel Corinne to demonstrate the endurance and evolution of improvisational rhetoric. Doing so not only illustrates the long-standing—and long-neglected—influence of improvisation on both rhetorical theory and literary production but also challenges present-day disciplinary prejudice by revealing the permeable boundary between imaginative works and those that provide rhetorical instruction. | |
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