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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maurer, Kathrin

Titel

The rhetoric of literary realism in Leopold von Ranke's historiography

Ist Teil von

• Clio (Fort Wayne, Ind.), 2006-06, Vol.35 (3), p.309

Ort / Verlag

Fort Wayne: Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]in stripping history's muse, Clio, of her poetic splendor, Ranke enhanced his prominence as a founder of the academic discipline of historiography. According to Benveniste, discours displays the subjective mode of language, in which the author engages with the audience and wants to persuade it of his own attitudes. According to Benveniste, histoire constitutes, in contrast to discours, the objective mode of language, that is, a purely narrative use of language, which is devoid of any interventions by the writer. Rather, they present catalogues, endless lists, and ever-accumulating amounts of information. [...]the second and the third sentence of the quote list names in a taxonomic style, heaping names of persons and nationalities (Alonso, Johann I, the French, the Castile, Johann II, Alvar de Luna, the Portuguese, Pacheo, Giron, and Henry IV) as well as proper names of locations (Castile, Palenzia, Trastamar, France).