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Main Author: Marco Aurelio Ángel-Lara
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Universidad de La Sabana 2011
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Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=70121403006
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contents Aphoristic Brevity: Towards a Critique of the Common Theoretical Approach Marco Aurelio Ángel-Lara Lengua y Literatura brevity Aphoristic specific difference function What follows is a critique of the analyses of the aphoristic feature that has produced more agreement among scholars in identifying and/or defining the genre: brevity. I suggest that, throughout the history of the genre, such a feature has had specific functions for particular audiences; among those functions, the specific difference function used to define and delimit the genre, is just a very peculiar one - the function attributed by an audience of literary scholars concerned with generic definitions. In this context, analyses of brevity as the characteristic of the aphoristic genre say more about the current ideological background of analysts than about the genre itself. Pointing at some assumptions of our way of thinking will help to effectively rethink the aphoristic subject. 2011 artículo científico 0123-0999 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=70121403006 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=701 Pensamiento y Cultura application/pdf Universidad de La Sabana Pensamiento y Cultura (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.14
format Artículo científico
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language en
publishDate 2011
publisher Universidad de La Sabana
spellingShingle Aphoristic Brevity: Towards a Critique of the Common Theoretical Approach
Marco Aurelio Ángel-Lara
Lengua y Literatura
brevity
Aphoristic
specific difference function
Aphoristic Brevity: Towards a Critique of the Common Theoretical Approach Marco Aurelio Ángel-Lara Lengua y Literatura brevity Aphoristic specific difference function What follows is a critique of the analyses of the aphoristic feature that has produced more agreement among scholars in identifying and/or defining the genre: brevity. I suggest that, throughout the history of the genre, such a feature has had specific functions for particular audiences; among those functions, the specific difference function used to define and delimit the genre, is just a very peculiar one - the function attributed by an audience of literary scholars concerned with generic definitions. In this context, analyses of brevity as the characteristic of the aphoristic genre say more about the current ideological background of analysts than about the genre itself. Pointing at some assumptions of our way of thinking will help to effectively rethink the aphoristic subject. 2011 artículo científico 0123-0999 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=70121403006 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=701 Pensamiento y Cultura application/pdf Universidad de La Sabana Pensamiento y Cultura (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.14
title Aphoristic Brevity: Towards a Critique of the Common Theoretical Approach
topic Lengua y Literatura
brevity
Aphoristic
specific difference function
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=70121403006