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Ryczek, Wojciech. "Epistola Erudita of Justus Lipsius." Terminus 21, Special Issue 2 (2019): 219–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843844te.19.009.11117.

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This paper presents (in the form of transcription and translation) a letter written by a humanist and classical scholar, Iustus Lipsius (1547–1606), which its Cracow editor entitled Epistola erudita (1602). The rhetorical analysis of this text is based on Lipsius’ treatise Epistolica institutio (The Principles of Letter-Writing). The main problem concerns the role of traditional rhetoric in epistolography, especially if the letter is not reduced to a formal document built of template formulas. Early-modern epistolography (Petrarca, Erasmus, Lipsius, Vives) revives the ancient tradition of writing letters, according to which a letter is a kind of written conversation. It gives the sender and the addressee a unique opportunity to meet each other in the symbolic universe of the text.
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Sofieva, Gulchin. "Epistolary genre in Eastern classical literature." Golden Scripts 5, no. 4 (December 10, 2022): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.52773/tsuull.gold.2022.4/hcxy5980.

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Epistolary genres (Greek epistole - letter) are a special form of lit-erature embodied in texts “in the form of letters, postcards, telegrams sent to an address to convey certain information.” Writing is an ancient popular epistolary genre. For people separated by a long distance, correspondence was the only means of communication. Over time, fixed etiquette formulas specific to certain types of letters (business, personal, etc.) were developed. Correspondence with relatives, acquaintances, friends, colleagues, etc. was conducted between Today, epistolary genres are experiencing hard times. This is primarily due to the development of scientific and technical prog-ress and the increasing importance of oral speech. The distance communi-cation function includes phone calls, correspondence on social networks, communication via e-mail, etc. took it upon himself. Paper letters in the usual format are used very rarely, in most cases as a business document. On the one hand, technical innovations expand the possibilities of commu-nicators: the processes of transmitting and receiving information are sig-nificantly accelerated, the interlocutors’ time is saved, it is possible to add photo, video and audio materials to the message, and conduct a dialogue.
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Hong, In-sook. "Characteristics of Modern Chinese Letter Textbooks (Cheokdok) from a Viewpoint of Sentence Introduction: Focusing on 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho (Rhetorical Writing)」 in 『Shincheminun Contemporary Writings Letter Writing Style』." Research of the Korean Classic 60 (February 28, 2023): 129–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.20516/classic.2023.60.129.

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This thesis tries to examine aspects and characteristics of writings called 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho (Rhetorical Writing)」 in 『Shincheminun Contemporary Writings Letter Writing Style』 from a viewpoint of sentence introduction essays. 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho」 is a syntax text which includes basic composition methods, the composition theory, writing’s social roles and significance. This writing regards 『Shincheminun Contemporary Writings Letter Writing Style』 as playing an important role as the book with sentence introduction as well as the simple letter textbook. And the thesis tries to examine 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho」 as the text which was influenced by Jeong, Inbo’s sentence theory by analyzing his preface in 『Shincheminun Contemporary Writings Letter Writing Style』 in detail. For this, the preface by Jeong, Inbo was first examined. The preface shows the sentence theory and letter theory’s directionality pursued by 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho」 like a completed example. Chapter 1 of 10 chapters of 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho」 is the general introduction like an independent essay about the origin of languages, letters, and writings. Chapter 2 to 4 describe the characteristics of the composition methods to present concrete writing techniques, Chapter 5 to 6 explain the characteristics of the concrete sentence theory, and Chapter 7 to 10 focus on writings’ styles. Like this, it treats the letter theory in earnest. This 「Seohanmunganghwaryakcho」 is writing to make readers read Widang Joeng, Inbo’s efforts to establish the systematic composition theory and letter theory as the sentence theory made under his academic and cultural influence. Furthermore, it can be thought this text plays an important role in making the characteristics of 『Shincheminun Contemporary Writings Letter Writing Style』 which is the contemporary letter textbook the sentence introduction with the characteristics of strengthening sentences in earnest, not staying at the level of the simple teaching material for letters.
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Mamadaliyeva, Susana. "Aesthetic function of literature and the mission of letters in stories." Общество и инновации 2, no. 4/S (May 20, 2021): 827–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.47689/2181-1415-vol2-iss4/s-pp827-832.

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Letters serve as a valuable source for studying not only the life and work of writers and critics, but also the period, history, reasons for writing, and the secrets of a particular work with all its contradictions. Alisher Navoi's letters to Munshaot have their own peculiarities, and their lack of study in Uzbek literature makes it necessary to study this topic. This determines the relevance of the topic we have chosen. To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been identified: to explain the nature and peculiarities of the letter genre; Determining the place of the letter in the works of AlisherNavoi; give different classifications of letters; to determine the place of the letters of the great poet in the life of that period; study the goals, objectives, scope of the letter genre; It is to reveal the significance of Navoi's letters. To show the role of the genre in the development of AlisherNavoi and classical literature on the basis of analysis, research, to give certain generalized conclusions.
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Mariani, Mariani, Tien Kurniati, and Mashuri Mashuri. "IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLS IN PERSONAL LETTER BY MASTERING STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT." e-Journal of ELTS (English Language Teaching Society) 11, no. 1 (May 1, 2023): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.22487/elts.v11i1.3665.

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This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of mastering the structure of the text to improve students’ writing skills in personal letters by mastering the structure of the text at second-year students of MA. Alkhairaat Biromaru. This is classroom action research. The object of this research is the second-year students of MA. Alkhairaat Biromaru consisting 21 students. This research was conducted in two cycles. The researchers used tests, observation for teachers and students, and LKS (project paper activity) to collect the data. The test research results show that the students’ writing skills in personal letters by mastering the structure of the text can be improved from the first cycle to the second one. The students’ test results can prove it in the first cycle, the classical competence percentage is 47,61%, and the classical absorption presentation is 60,95% can be improved to 85,71% for classical competence presentation and 83,33% for classical absorption presentation in cycle II. It means that the students’ writing skills in personal letters can be improved by mastering the structure of the text.
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Majid, Gilang Maulana. "Diplomatic Correspondence: A Comparative Study on Malay and Javanese Letters in 1800s." IKAT : The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 2, no. 2 (January 17, 2019): 287. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/ikat.v2i2.39239.

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A more established tradition may set an indirect consensus for thecommunication between rulers in any situation. This article identifies howdiplomatic correspondence was conducted and how different perceptions could actually be negotiated to attain certain goals. Two diplomatic letters – one from the Panembahan of Sumenep and one from the Sultanof Yogyakarta dispatched to Thomas Stamford Raffles to address Raffles’retirement during the British interregnum in Java from 1811 to 1816 –were analyzed. These letters were chosen due to the different scripts and languages used in the two letters: Classical Malay Jawi and Old Javanese'aksara Jawa'. By applying content analysis, this study finds that the Malay language was not only influential throughout the Indonesian archipelagoas a medium for verbal communication, but its letter-writing tradition even clearly affected its Javanese counterpart, setting a standard writing style for diplomatic letters.
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Kangieva, Alie Memetovna. "Diary written in the form of a letter to a mentor as a Sufi psychotechnics (psycholinguistic analysis)." Психология и Психотехника, no. 3 (March 2023): 14–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0722.2023.3.40938.

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The article analyzes the diaries in the form of a letter to a mentor, presents the results of a survey of the authors of the diaries, reflecting their subjective assessment of the influence of the diary on their mental state. The spread of such diary forms as a diary in the form of a letter to a mentor reflects a communicative turn in science, psychology, art, mass consciousness, when the focus shifts from I to You. The postmodern aesthetics of modern diary forms is revealed. It is shown that writing letters to mentors is not a classical ritual Sufi psychotechnics. At the same time, Sufism is a communicative model and all Sufi rituals are rituals of communication. Therefore, writing letters is a written expression of such classical Sufi techniques as istighasa, istiana (asking for help), tawassul (search for means of approaching God), rabita (imagining meeting and being near a mentor). Sufi returns to the ultimate truth about himself: about his boundaries, about his vulnerability and weakness, about the need for You, about the impossibility of living without a dialogue with You. Through embedding himself in a hierarchical relationship with a mentor, the Sufi comes to the ultimate dependence on God. Dependence on God is not chemical or behavioral, it is getting rid of psychic defenses and illusions about the strength of one’s control, influence and power and stating one’s slavish position with God, when the only thing that controls the heart of a Sufi is choice-to-you.
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Henderson, Judith Rice. "Valla's Elegantiae and the Humanist Attack on the Ars Dictaminis." Rhetorica 19, no. 2 (2001): 249–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2001.19.2.249.

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Renaissance humanists modified rather than rejected the medieval adaptation of classical rhetoric to letter writing, but they came to scorn the “barbaric” grammar of the ars dictaminis. This development followed the widespread dissemination through printing, beginning in 1471, of the Elegantiae of Lorenzo Valla and its imitators. Niccolò Perotti incorporated Valla's approach to language in a section on epistolography of his Rudimenta grammatices, and soon letter writing and elegantiae became closely associated in textbooks. By about 1500, not only medieval writers but even humanist pioneers of an earlier generation and contemporary professionals who dared to defend established epistolary etiquette were under attack. By 1522, when Erasmus published his De conscribendis epistolis, medieval formulas had become merely comic.
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Choy, Renie. "Seeking Meaning Behind Epistolary Clichés: Intercessory Prayer Clauses in Christian Letters." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001200.

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The letter, as the format of twenty-one of the twenty-seven documents in the canonical New Testament, is arguably the literary form which has played the most significant role in the history of Christianity. But scholars have often been troubled by how to treat the conventions framing Christian letters: since little of Christian literature from its earliest time to the medieval period escapes the influence of classical traditions of rhetoric, can constant epistolary formulas be taken as expressions of genuine sentiment? In fact, it is precisely because the lines between classical influence and Christian innovation are so difficult to make out that E. R. Curtius was able to argue that the humility formula of medieval charters, for so long assumed to have originated in Paul, was in fact a pagan Hellenistic prototype like scores of other rhetorical conventions. His study of the formula serves, Curtius writes, to ‘furnish a warning against making the Middle Ages more Christian or more pious than it was’, and to demonstrate that ‘a constant literary formula must not be regarded as the expression of spontaneous sentiment’. So the entrenchment of rhetoric in letter-writing is often set in opposition to genuine Christian feeling, commonplace utterance against living expression, empty verbiage against religious sincerity.
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Dashlkhagvaa, Ganbold, and Gilyana M. Chulchaeva. "О сутре грамматики монгольского письма Нандзад-аграмбы «Более доступный ключ к познанию»." Oriental studies 16, no. 6 (December 29, 2023): 1600–1610. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2023-70-6-1600-1610.

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Introduction. Tibetan-language scriptures created by Mongolian monastic scholars and related studies are extremely few. To date, we are aware of a total of ten such scriptures. Goals. So, the article aims to introduce one such text into scientific circulation, the rest be examined in a series of subsequent works. Materials and methods. The study employs the historical comparative method and those of scientific identification, analysis and synthesis. Results. The paper reveals some errors and inaccuracies that contradict available historical and textual data. Comparative insights into classical works of the designated period identify certain lettering proper (some letters classified neither as vowels nor as consonants in the attempted grammar of written Mongolian) and letter-naming differences, as well as somewhat invariants for same grammatical terms. The analysis has also yielded data unavailable in other works on written Mongolian. Conclusions. The paper reveals evidence of existence of a Mongolian writing school in the fifteenth century, and shows the stylistic levels were distinguished by certain writing patterns.
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Nava, Tomas Hidalgo. "Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/146.

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This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' Balún-Canán and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima, novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow and develop in a context where they need to build bridges between their European and Amerindian roots in the middle of external influences that complicate the construction of a new mestizo consciousness. In order to attain that consciousness and free themselves from their divided selves, these children receive the aid of an indigenous mentor who teaches them how to establish a dialogue with their past, nature, and their social reality. The protagonists undertake that negotiation by transgressing the rituals of a society immersed in colonial dual thinking. They also create mechanisms to re-interpret their past and tradition in order to create an image of themselves that is not imposed by the status quo. In both novels, the protagonists have to undergo similar processes to overcome their identity crises, including transculturation, the creation of sites of memory, and a transition from orality to writing. Each of them resorts to creative writing and becomes a sort of shaman who pulls together the "spirits" from the past, selects them, and organizes them in a narration of childhood that is undertaken from adulthood. The results of this enterprise are completely different in the cases of both protagonists because the historical and social contexts vary. The boy in Bless Me, Ultima can harmoniously gather the elements to construct his identity, while the girl in Balún-Canán fails because of the pressures of a male-centered and highly racist society.
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Books on the topic "Classical Letter writing"

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Porciani, Leone. La forma proemiale: Storiografia e pubblico nel mondo antico. Pisa: Scuola normale superiore, 1997.

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Sykoutrēs, Iōannēs. Archaia epistolographia. [Athens]: Hetaireia Spoudōn Neoellēnikou Politismou kai Genikēs Paideias, 1988.

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Muir, J. V. Life and letters in the ancient Greek world. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2008.

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UMR 5189 "Histoire et sources des mondes anciens.", ed. La lettre gréco-latine, un genre littéraire. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2014.

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Colloque "Le genre épistolaire antique et ses prolongements" (1st 1998 Université François-Rabelais). Epistulae antiquae: Actes du 1er Colloque "Le genre épistolaire antique et ses prolongements", Université François-Rabelais, Tours, 18-19 septembre 1998. Louvain: Peeters, 2000.

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prolongements", Colloque "Le genre épistolaire antique et ses. Epistulae antiquae IV: Actes du IVe Colloque international "L'épistolaire antique et ses prolongements européens" (Université François-Rabelais, Tours, 1er-2-3 décembre 2004). Louvain: Peeters, 2006.

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Stowers, Stanley K. Letter writing in Greco-Roman antiquity. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

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Halla-aho, Hilla. The non-literary Latin letters: A study of their syntax and pragmatics. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2009.

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Papyrusmuseum, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, ed. Stimmen aus dem Wüstensand: Briefkultur im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Wien: Phoibos, 2010.

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Jacques, Schlosser, ed. Paul de Tarse. Paris: Cerf, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Classical Letter writing"

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Bossler, Beverly, and Benoît Grévin. "Latin and Classical Chinese Epistolographic Communication in Comparative Perspective." In Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800-1600. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720038_ch05.

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A comparative history of the social and stylistic characteristics of letter-writing in the Western Latin world and in China has yet to be written. Among other difficulties, the historical study of letter-writing in China has only recently attracted scholarly attention, and the social and intellectual contexts of epistolary culture in China and the Latin West were in many respects strikingly different. This chapter compares, in a longue durée perspective, the differing assumptions that conditioned the development of epistolary genres in China and Europe, with a particular focus on the Song period (the period of ars dictaminis in Western letter-writing culture). It concludes by proposing a variety of potential methodological frames that could be fruitful in future comparative research.
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"14. THE GENESIS OF CLASSICAL EPISTOLOGRAPHY: HUMANIST LETTER-WRITING RHETORIC FROM PETRARCH TO JUSTUS LIPSIUS." In Republic of Letters, 212–26. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/9780300240443-017.

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Stenger, Jan R. "The Making of the Late Antique Mind." In Education in Late Antiquity, 239–84. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869788.003.0007.

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The relationship with the classical past, a core element of formal education in any period of Graeco-Roman civilization, is the topic of the final chapter. As the engagement with cultural achievements of the past was key to late antique schooling, reflection on education gave birth to a characteristic sense of temporality, an awareness of the very lateness of late antiquity. The chapter focuses on four writers who articulated this new consciousness: the rhetorical teacher Himerius, the preacher John Chrysostom, Augustine as a letter writer, and Cassiodorus as a monastic educationalist. These authors conceptualized educational practices as a vehicle for self-positioning vis-à-vis temporality. Learning, especially reading practices, was seen by them as correlating with historical consciousness. By this move, learning was reinterpreted as a historical and reconstructive enquiry: while engaging with works of previous centuries, learners were supposed to acquire a sense of temporality and determine their standpoint with regard to intellectual history. Studying the classics produced the times in which the classical authors were writing as a distinct period in time, different from the times in which the late antique readers lived. This handling of the past was characteristic of a postclassical mentality.
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Drummond, Henry T. "Songs of Persuasion." In The Cantigas de Santa Maria, 1–34. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197670590.003.0001.

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Abstract The Cantigas are songs designed to persuade their listeners, both of Mary’s sacredness and of Alfonso X’s personal connection with her as a royal troubadour. Essential to making the Cantigas so persuasive is their construction, which is influenced by medieval principles of rhetoric. This chapter begins by laying out the importance of rhetoric in the later Middle Ages, from the reuse of Classical rhetorical theory to its later adaptation in the liberal arts education of courtly elites. Rhetoric is shown to have permeated through all aspects of medieval literacy, including the arts of letter writing (or ars dictaminis), poetry (ars poetriae), and preaching (ars praedicandi). Having set up this context, this chapter turns to the ways in which rhetoric determines the construction of the cantiga de miragre, comparing the ordering (or dispositio) of antique and medieval texts with the components that form the building blocks of Alfonsine song.
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"Index of Classical Writings." In Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection, 233–35. University of California Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520972933-009.

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"INDEX OF CLASSICAL WRITINGS." In Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection, 233–34. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrnfp87.11.

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Wilson, Ross. "More than Justice." In Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism, 86–102. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191954474.003.0007.

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Abstract This chapter begins by noting the involvement literariness and persuasion in Hazlitt’s writing and develops two lines of interpretation from there. First, the chapter examines the importance of mobility—or, more specifically, the refusal of stasis—to Hazlitt’s conception of sound reasoning. Second, the chapter shows how this emphasis on cognitive movement entails a radical reconception of the ways in which balance may (or may not be) a virtue of judgment. Balance, for Hazlitt, is a dynamic, potentially precarious condition rather than a settled state to be achieved by means of rhetoric (as it had been, for instance, in the classical rhetorical tradition). The chapter discusses a number of Hazlitt’s works, including his A Letter to William Gifford and Political Essays, focusing in particular on his engagement with Edmund Burke; it opens by contextualizing the opposition between literariness and persuasion through recourse to comments by John Stuart Mill, W. B. Yeats, and Theodor W. Adorno.
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Thiel, John E. "The Literal Sense of Tradition." In Senses Of Tradition, 31–55. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195137262.003.0002.

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Abstract This chapter begins this study’s effort to sketch a hermeneutics of tradition. As we have seen, the four senses of scripture-the literal. the allegorical. the moral, and the anagogical-had a long history in medieval exegetical theory and practice. The senses of tradition expounded here and in the Following chapters are fourfold as well. That consistency in number with the medieval interpretive schema, however, should not suggest a parallel between the content of all four classical senses of scripture and that of the interpretive senses of tradition proposed herein. “Development-in-continuity,” “dramatic development,” and “incipient development,” the interpretive senses of tradition to be elucidated in the following chapters, do not correspond directly to the ancient interpretive senses of scripture: the allegorical, the tropological. and the anagogical. respectively. The first interpretive sense of tradition and the first interpretive sense of scripture do, nevertheless, resemble each other in their shared commitment to a stable meaning connected closely with the “letter” of tradition or the “letter” of scripture. To the degree that both scripture and tradition present their teaching in writing, they possess a literal sense that acts as a gravitational field for the other interpretive senses. Whether some of the other interpretive senses are attracted inexorably to the literal sense’s center of gravity or ardently resist its pull, they all nonetheless fall within the sphere of its influence. The literal sense of tradition is the concern of this chapter.
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Borchmeyer, Dieter. "‘Intentionally Random Creativity’: Wagner’s Theory of Fixed Improvisation." In Richard Wagner, 48–58. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780193153226.003.0005.

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Abstract Wagner’s intense preoccupation with Goethe’s Faust during the 1870s was connected not least with the fact that he believed he had found in it a dramatic form which, unlike the structured model of ancient Greek tragedy, was particularly well adapted to his idea of fixed improvisation. Again and again in conversation with Cosima we find him referring to the ‘barbarian advantages’1 and ‘barbarian style of composition’ which, according to his letter to Schiller of 26 June 1797, Goethe had actively espoused in writing Faust, although he knew that, in doing so, he had offended against the ‘highest demands’ of artistic form as prescribed by the Greek classical ideal.2 When, on 8 February 1872, Cosima once again mentioned those barbarian advantages ‘on which Goethe says we must courageously insist’, Wagner’s reply was: ‘Yes, Faust, the Ninth, Bach’s Passions are barbarian works of that kind, that is to say, works of art which cannot be compared with a Greek Apollo or a Greek tragedy.’ And to these he added his conception of ‘the art-work of the future’.
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Wood, Ian. "Registers of Latin in Gaul from the Fifth to the Seventh Century." In Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces, 155–67. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198888956.003.0006.

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Abstract Despite the fact that language moved further and further from classical norms, writers in sixth- and seventh-century Gaul continued to show an awareness of the appropriate use of different registers in writing Latin, employing a more florid style for some audiences than for others. This is apparent in the composition of sermons and letters, as can be seen most obviously in the writings of Avitus of Vienne, but also in the letters written in the seventh century, as well as in the works of Gregory of Tours, and in hagiographical works, where the preface is often more rhetorical than the ensuing narrative.
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Conference papers on the topic "Classical Letter writing"

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Stroganova, Nina. "LETTER TO WU JIZHONG BY CAO ZHI — A PANEGYRIC OR A PAMPHLET?" In 9th International Conference ISSUES OF FAR EASTERN LITERATURES. St. Petersburg State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.18.

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The focus of the article, Letter to Wu Jizhong (Yu Wu Jizhong shu, 与吴季重书), a sample of Jian’an epistolography, is a message sent by Cao Zhi (曹植, 192–232) to his friend Wu Zhi (吴质). The article contains the translation and analysis of Letter to Wu Jizhong, which has not been studied in Russian sinology yet. Letter to Wu Jizhong is to be considered only in the light of Letter in response to Cao Zhi by Wu Zhi (Da Dong’e wang shu, 答东阿王书). Letter to Wu Jizhong is analyzed as an oratorical speech in writing. The analysis is based on classical rhetorical theories, mainly on Aristotle’s theory of rhetoric. In each of the 3 parts of the Letter… we highlight its subject, theme, problem, thesis, goal (elements of the Inventio). The oratory of the Letter… is epideictic and deliberative. “The topos of Size”, i. e., exaggeration, contributes to the grotesque-satirical effect.
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