On the Teaching of Literature, in Constant Reference to Michael Riffaterre and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (75002)
Session Chair: Hebatalla Salem
Monday, 19 February 2024 09:35
Session: Session 1
Room: Room B (Live Stream)
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
The purpose of this presentation is to compare Michael Riffaterre's article The Poem as Representation: a reading of Hugo, with Dionysius of Halicarnassus De Compositione Verborum. Both Riffaterre and Dionysius believe that the criterion of correspondence with reality is not the best possible touchstone for evaluating a literary text. The difference is that Riffaterre arrives at this conclusion through descriptive critical analysis and Dionysus from a rhetorical and prescriptive position. This presentation will focus on a comparative exercise between these two approaches, focusing on canonical questions such as the relationship between theory and the teaching of literature, the adoption of specific methodologies to evaluate certain types of texts, and the existence, or non-existence, of boundaries that separate the literary field from other areas, such as rhetoric. The intention will be to showcase a type of posture when it comes to the engagement with literary texts that does not necessarily succumb to the specific uses of the reader or the "tyranny" of the authority of the author.
Authors:
Lauro Filipe Reis, University of Lisbon, Portugal
About the Presenter(s)
Mr Lauro Filipe Reis is a University Doctoral Student at Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon in Portugal
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