Abstract
This essay aims to establish a dialogical framework between Michael Riffaterre´s The Poem as Representation: A Reading of Hugo, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus´s De Compositione Verborum. Both Riffaterre and Dionysius agree that the criterion of correspondence with reality is not the best possible touchstone for evaluating a text. The difference is that Riffaterre arrives at this conclusion through a descriptive critical analysis and Dionysus from a rhetorical and prescriptive position. This essay 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 others, such as rhetoric. The intention will be to showcase a type of stance when it comes to literary texts that does not necessarily succumb either to the specific uses of the reader or the "tyranny" of the authority of the author.
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Lauro Filipe Reis, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Conference: SEACE2024
Stream: Assessment Theories & Methodologies
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Reis L. (2024) On the Teaching of Literature, in Constant Reference to Michael Riffaterre and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ISSN: 2435-5240 The Southeast Asian Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2024.1
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