Teaching and rhetoric

Authors

  • Nicolás Garayalde Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; CONICET

Abstract

This article is presented as a continuation, forty years later, of the analysis that Gérard Genette developed in “Rhétorique et enseignement” (1966), where he investigated the passage from rhetoric to literary history that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century in the teaching of literature. To develop this task, we will first analyze the correspondence between the transformations that have taken place in the field of “literary studies” and those that we can observe in the field of literature teaching. This work will allow us to notice, from the 70’s and the rise of literary theory, a return of rhetoric. But a new rhetoric: not the traditional one of persuasion but the deployment of a rhetoric linked to deconstruction and “interventionist criticism”.

Keywords:

Teaching, Literature, Rhetoric, Literary history, Literary theory