Review article
Dialogical prose discourse in the 16th century Renaissance literature
Vesela Tutavac
; Sprachenzentrum der Universität Wien
Abstract
The dialogical prose discourse, known from the ancient philosophical discussions, experiences in humanistic literature its revival as an autonomous literary genre, fitting perfectly in the pedagogical programme of the epoch and the didactical purpose of most of the works written by the humanistic authors. Although inspired by the classical form and its rhetorical apparatus, the humanists, especially the Renaissance writers of the 16th century, have reinterpreted the literary form and exposed its inner structure to changes in order to reflect and express the didactical character of the work in the best possible way, making the reception of the didactical message easier for the reader. The dialogical communication on the character level in the work, the credibility of which the author tries to achieve by listing topoi or by complicated staging, is supplemented by communication in a wider sense between the author and the reader, and at that level the form and its inner structure are equal factors of the dialogical communication code.
Keywords
dialog; discourse; Renaissance; communication
Hrčak ID:
174665
URI
Publication date:
17.4.2008.
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