Ars dictandi, dictaminis

Camargo, Martin; Ueding, Gert

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“…As the church expanded across distance, uniting many people, letters became important in holding the bureaucracy together and maintaining the bonds of communality (Constable, 1976). To train clerics in what was now becoming the major medium of doctrine and administration, a specialized branch of rhetoric developed known as the ars dictaminis (Camargo, 1991). This art of letter writing emphasized the salutation, identifying and giving respect to the social roles and statuses of the sender and receiver, and placing both within institutionalized social relations.…”

Section: Letters In the Early Christian Churchmentioning

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Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future, and Nurturing of Homo Scribens

Bazerman

2024

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Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future, and Nurturing of Homo Scribens

Bazerman

2024

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“…In other words, the writer would not have been able to compose such a dense epistolary preface if they were actually experiencing writer's block. 13 As in the traditional structure of a speech, the exposition of the topic happens in the narratio followed by the request in the petitio (Camargo 1992(Camargo , 1040(Camargo -1041. Finkenhagen (1749, 28) stresses that the most important element should come first, by which is meant immediately after the polite introduction.…”

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Writing a Letter to One’s Muse: Genre memory and epistolography in Carl August Thielo’s Enveloppens eller Saloppens forunderlige Hændelser (1763)

Huber¹

2023

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Epistolary texts are often incorporated into 18th-century prose literature, but only rarely do they self-referentially discuss intertextuality as the mimesis of memory (Neumann 2005; 2008). Carl August Thielo’s “comic novel” uses a letter to the Muse to juxtapose a writer’s reliance on literary memoria and the demand for innovation.Drawing on Mikhail M. Bakhtin’s (1984) term “genre memory,” this paper examines the relationship between memory, generic hybridity and epistolography. Genre memory describes how, through the process of “novelization,” genres are incorporated and contemporised by the novel. Creative genre memory drives innovation by giving the most archaic generic elements a voice in narration and by establishing a ground for their hybrid interplay, thus producing a semantic surplus. By connecting this approach to epistolography, generic hybridity is illustrated as a product of material and narrative practices.In lieu of a preface to the reader, Thielo’s text begins with a Muse letter asking for assistance with the poetic work. This opens a discussion of generic differences and similarities, as well as the workings of intertextuality. At the same time, the engagement of texts with literary history is visualised via addresses to a mythical being belonging to literature’s memoria. Hence, the Muse letter depicts how poetical inventio builds on intertextuality to spark inspiration, thereby materialising the otherwise invisible, but crucial stage of writing before writing.This article serves to elaborate a first understanding of novelised epistolography and its potential for literary memory studies, which emphasises material and paratextual aspects over purely linguistic elements.

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Ars dictandi, dictaminis

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Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future, and Nurturing of Homo Scribens

Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future, and Nurturing of Homo Scribens

Writing a Letter to One’s Muse: Genre memory and epistolography in Carl August Thielo’s Enveloppens eller Saloppens forunderlige Hændelser (1763)

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