Rhetorical Theory in Sixteenth-Century Spain: A Critical Survey

• Published in: Rhetorica Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 133 - 148
• Main Author: López, Jorge Fernández
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley Johns Hopkins University Press 01.03.2002
• Subjects: 16th century; Language history; Learning; Poetics; Rhetoric; Spanish; Teaching; Europe; Spain

During the last thirty years, a growing scholarly attention has been paid to Spanish rhetoric. This paper gives an overview of the main studies on the subject and, with detailed bibliographical reference, draws a picture which presents the main features of Spanish rhetorical theory in the sixteenth...