Overview
Lecturer
Petronela-Stela Wainberg-Drăghiciu
Seminar tutor
Petronela-Stela Wainberg-Drăghiciu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Language and literature
Field of study
Romanian Language and Literature - English Language and Literature
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification, applications
Entry requirements
Literary theory
Aims
enrolling the main rules of Rhetoric in a unitary and coherent structure
theoretical introduction into the study of rhetoric, knowledge of the main aspects of the discipline in chronological evolution
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Course contents
Introduction in Rhetoric. Definitions. Neorhetoric. Rhetorica rediviva. Genesis of rhetoric: history of the discipline; oratory literature. Attic eloquence. Greek rhetoric. Latin rhetoric; evolution of rhetoric; the functions of the rhetoric. Interdisciplinary of the rhetoric. Style. Speech. Poetics. Literary work; Romanian rhetoric. Representative personalities of the discourse in Romanian culture: Antim Ivireanul, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Barbu Delavrancea, Titu Maiorescu, Nicolae Titulescu, Istrate Micescu, Ion Petrovici, Nae Ionescu etc. The first attempts of poetics in Romanian literature: Miron Costin, Dimitrie Eustatievici, Macarie, Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, C. Conachi. Figures of rhetoric.
Learning outcomes
primary data assimilation about the history of the discipline
correct mastery of specialized terms
integrating language phenomena in the wider context of the values of culture and civilization
perception the relationship of interdisciplinarity: rhetoric / stylistics / literary theory (rhetorical figures / style figures; the art of discourse)
Assessment
Written paper – 100%.
Recommended reading
Mircea Frânculescu, Retorica românească – antologie, Bucureşti, 1980.
Gh. Mihai, Retorica tradiţională şi retorici moderne, Bucureşti, 1998.
Michel Patillon, Eléments de rhétorique classique, C. Edition N. Piquart, 1990.
Claude Peyroutet, Style et rhétorique, Nathan, 1994.
Olivier Reboul, La rhétorique, Presses Universitaires de France, 1998.