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Die Lehre der Affekte und ihre Rolle im Werk Dostoevskijs

  • Renate Lachmann
Published/Copyright: August 14, 2009
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From the journal Volume 44 Issue 1

The rhetorical doctrine of affects has not only developed a catalogue of emotions but has also described strategies to produce emotions and it has organized them into different stylistic types. Emotional symptoms are linked to rhetorical rules, aiming at the representation and production of passions. Rhetorical and poetic treatises have preserved the memories of these emotional techniques, and every period in history has its own ideas about exhibiting or suppressing emotional outbursts, highlighting either the Aristotelian or the Stoic tradition. Dostoevsky's work combines a modernized version of the rhetoric of affects with a psychosomatic discourse on hysteria and epilepsy. Hysteria appears in his novels as a special form of representation rather than as a psychic illness. Hysteria redefined as a stylistic means, combines illness with rhetoric in such a way that both refer to each other.

Online erschienen: 2009-08-14
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