Rhetoric and Delegation in Petrarca and Boethius

Zusatztext

The comparatist study at hand aims at seconding and supplementing the (apparently plausible) observation that diachronically diverse processes of delegation may well amount to a condicio sine qua non of human culturethe latter being a Blumenbergian thesis, taken up and tied in with for heuristic purposes herein. In so doing, the focus happens to be on works of world literature: central events in Scripture (Moses, Paul), as well as Ciceros Somnium Scipionis, parts of Vergils Aeneid, of Augustines Soliloquia and Confessiones, the first book of the Boethian Consolatio Philosophiae, as well as salient aspects pertaining to Dantes Vita Nova and Convivioall with respect to Petrarcas Secretum, specifically its proem. Said focus is complemented by a detailed commentary on the three days of the dialog in question. The study concludes with a meditation on delegation and contingency.

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DS Mayfield, Leipzig University, Germany.

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