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History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: This article provides an insight into the notion of history as a literary genre. It argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the concept of “history” was mostly employed in its plural form: “the stories” and not “history” were the predominant form of the concept of history. These “stories” were related to the ancient Ciceronian rhetorical and moral tradition of history as Magistra Vitae (history as life's teacher) and were considered part of the so-called belles-lettres or “literature”.

Source: International Journal of Literature and Arts

DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.14

Author: Alejandro Cheirif Wolosky

Institution: Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg

Language: English

Topic: Renaissance Literature and Culture

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2169198640

FWCI: 8.262

Cites: 14

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10