History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

Alejandro Cheirif Wolosky

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History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

Alejandro Cheirif Wolosky

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Received: 11 December 2013 Published: 20 February 2014

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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”.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.14
Page(s)	16-23
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History, Literature, Rhetoric, Fable

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[19]	Idem.
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[24]	Idem.
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[26]	Idem.
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[33]	Idem.
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[41]	Ibid., p. 80.

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Museum of natural history, Luxemburg, Luxembourg

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