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Celestina: Genre and Rhetoric - Softcover

Fraker, Charles F.

 
9780729302968: Celestina: Genre and Rhetoric
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0729302962 ISBN 13: 9780729302968
Publisher: Tamesis Books, 1990

Synopsis

Professor Fraker argues that the "Celestina", however original or singular, does not embody a new discourse, and falls easily within the literary norms of its time. Thus on the one hand it belongs to a genre, comedy, the term taken in a sense perfectly accessible to the two authors and their contemporaries. On the other, the detail and fabric of the work is in great part genuinely rhetorical. In his approach to the question of genre, Professor Fraker draws on four texts familiar to students at the time of composition of the work: the description of the comic plot in the section on "narratio" in the "De inventione", the essays of Evanthius and Donatus which introduce the latter's commentary on Terence, and the commentary proper. Throughout his study Professor Fraker maintains a sense of paradox: the "Celestina", by any standards unique, is nevertheless entirely conservative and traditional if considered from the viewpoint of form or mode of discourse.

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Review

Throughout, he writes in an extremely readable, persuasive and appealing style... Fraker works almost every aspect of the Tragicomedia into its proper place, well within the bounds of the comic genre, he also shows things we had not seen so clearly before about the work itself and about its excellence. SPECULUM

Synopsis

Professor Fraker argues that the "Celestina", however original or singular, does not embody a new discourse, and falls easily within the literary norms of its time. Thus on the one hand it belongs to a genre, comedy, the term taken in a sense perfectly accessible to the two authors and their contemporaries. On the other, the detail and fabric of the work is in great part genuinely rhetorical. In his approach to the question of genre, Professor Fraker draws on four texts familiar to students at the time of composition of the work: the description of the comic plot in the section on "narratio" in the "De inventione", the essays of Evanthius and Donatus which introduce the latter's commentary on Terence, and the commentary proper. Throughout his study Professor Fraker maintains a sense of paradox: the "Celestina", by any standards unique, is nevertheless entirely conservative and traditional if considered from the viewpoint of form or mode of discourse.

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Publisher
Tamesis Books
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0729302962
ISBN 13 
9780729302968
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
104