ISBN:
1474445012
,
9781474445016
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Randall, David, 1972- Concept of conversation
DDC:
177.2
Keywords:
Conversation in literature
;
Conversation History
;
Conversation analysis
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
;
Conversation in literature
;
Conversation analysis
;
Conversation
;
History
Abstract:
The classic origins of conversation -- The medieval reformulations of conversation -- The Renaissance of conversation -- Intimate friendship -- Court, Salon, and republic of letters -- Letters -- Sociabilitas
Abstract:
In the classical period, conversation referred to real conversations, conducted in the leisure time of noble men, and concerned with indefinite philosophical topics. Christianity inflected conversation with universal aspirations during the medieval centuries and the ars dictaminis, the art of letter writing, increased the importance of this written analogue of conversation. The Renaissance humanists from Petrarch onward further transformed conversation, and its genre analogues of dialogue and letter, by transforming it into a metaphor of increasing scope. This expanded realm of humanist conversation bifurcated in Renaissance and early modern Europe. The Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women. It revises Jürgen Habermas' history of the emergence of the rational speech of the public sphere as the history of the emergence of rational conversation and puts the emergence of women's speech at the centre of the intellectual history of early modern Europe -- Provided by the publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references 224-255 and index
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