To want to prove it… is… really superfluous: Friedrich schlegel’s reiterative repudiation of demonstrative rhetoric in the athenaum fragment #82

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-151

  Fusfield, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Declaration; Demonstration; Reiteration; Rhetoric; Schlegel

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011128708     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335639709384177     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Wayne C. Anderson, “ ‘Perpetual Affirmations, Unexplained': The Rhetoric of Reiteration in Coleridge, Carlyle, and Emerson,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (1985): 37-51.
2. William D. Fusfield, “ ‘Nothing Should and Nothing Can be Proved': Young Friedrich SchlegePs Declarative Challenge to the Demonstrative Voice of Western Rhetoric,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Argumentation, ed. Frans H. van Eemeren et al. (Amsterdam: ISSA, 1991) vol. 1A, 45-53
3. William D. Fusfield, “Blaming Lysias: On the Origins of Western Argumentative Justification in the Socratic Proscription/Utilization of Stylistic, Reiterative, Equivocative and Combinational Rhetorical Forms,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Argumentation, ed., Frans H. van Eemeren etal. (Dordrecht: SicSat, 1995) vol. 1, 311-327.
4. Ernst Behler, Friedrich Schlegel in Selbst&ugnissen und Bilddokumenten [Friedrich Schlegel in Self-Disclosures and Visual Documentj] (Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966)
5. Helmut Schanze, “Romantik und Rhetorik: Rhetorische Komponenten der Literaturprogrammatik urn 1800,” [Rhetoric: Contributions to its History in Germany from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century] Rhetorik: Beilrage zu ihrer Geschichte in Deutschland vom 76en bis 20enjahrhundert (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1974) 126-144.
6. For more on reiterative rhetoric in texts of the American Renaissance, see Lawrence Buell, Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (Ithaca: Cornell, 1973) 166-187.
7. Charles Willard, “On the Utility of Descriptive Diagrams for the Analysis and Criticism of Arguments,” Communication Monographs 43 (1976); 308-319
8. Bruce E. Gronbeck, “Gorgias on Rhetoric and Poetic; A Rehabilitation,” Southern Speech CommunicationJournal38 (1972): 27-38
9. John Poulakos, “Rhetoric, The Sophists, and the Possible,” 219-220.
10. Klaus Dockhom, “Die Rhetorik als Quelle des vorromantischen Irrationalismus in der Literatur- und Geistesge- schichte” [Rhetoric as the Source of Preromantic Irrationalism in Literary and Intellectual History] in… Nachrichten der Aktualitat der Wissenschaft in Gottingen Klasse,… Schanze, “Romantik und Rhetorik” and Schanze, Romantik und Aufklarung: Untersuchungen zu Firedrich Schlegel undNovalis, (Nunberg: Hans Carl, 1966).
11. George A. Kennedy, Aristotle On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (New York: Oxford UP, 1991) 32-33.
12. For more on Schlegel’s theory of “infinite perfectibility,” see Ernst Behler, “Die Idee der unendlichen Perfektibilitat” in Gallo Germanica, ed. E. Heftrich and J.M. Valentin, (Nancy: U. of Nancy Press, 1982) 121-150.