Rhetoric (M.A)

Pre-requisites: Finished grad. studies

Course objectives: Acquainting student with basic problems concerning Ancient rhetoric, its historical development and relation towards Serbian rhetorical theory and practice; Relation of rhetoric to related disciplines; Enabling students to make orations according rhetorical rules, and to recognize by analysis basic rhetorical elements in literary texts.

Course description: History and theoretical aspects of Ancient rhetoric, relation of Greek and Roman rhetoric, History of Serbian rhetoric and its relation to Antic; rhetoric, poetic, aesthetic, stylistics and literary critic.

Learning Outcomes: Students are enabled to do independent research paper in area of Ancient literature, national literature of European peoples of modern times; The ability to study comparatively literature along diachronic and synchronic line.

Literature/Reading:

• - Heinrich Lausberg, Handbuch der litterarischen Rhetorik, München, 1960.
• - PROGΥMNAΣMATA retora Aftonija, predgovor, prevod sa grčkog i napomene V. Jelić, SANU i Matica srpska, Beograd 1997.
• Vojislav Jelić, Sterija i Kvintilijan, Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1988.
• - Vojislav Jelić, Antička i srpska retorika, Beograd, 2001.
• KENNEDY, A. George, Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times, London, 1980.
• KROLL, W, Rhetorik, RE, Suppl. VII, 1940, col. 1039-1138.
• Branislav Nušić, Retorika, Nauka o besedništvu, Beograd, 1934