Course 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 Entry Requirements:

Literary theory

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.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification, applications

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)

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

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.