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Building Bonds of Scholarly Love: Changing Rhetorical Strategies in Comenius’s Correspondence during the 1630s
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SYSNO ASEP 0531988 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve SCOPUS Title Building Bonds of Scholarly Love: Changing Rhetorical Strategies in Comenius’s Correspondence during the 1630s Author(s) Storchová, Lucie (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title Acta Comeniana. - : Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. - ISSN 0231-5955
-, 33/57 (2019), s. 79-102Number of pages 24 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords Learned correspondence ; Neo-Latin ; Pansophy ; Love ; Friendship ; Self-fashioning ; Rhetoric ; Homosocial ; Jan Amos Comenius ; Samuel Hartlib ; Joachim Hübner Subject RIV AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision OECD category Specific literatures R&D Projects GB14-37038G GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Metadata only Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 EID SCOPUS 85095129027 Annotation The article deals with changes in the epistolary style of Jan Amos Comenius during the 1630s – the period in which Comenius expanded his epistolary networks and became an important figure in the Republic of Letters of that time. The author analyses how Comenius fashioned himself and how he changed his rhetorical strategies when approaching various groups of scholars (German educational refomers, the Hartlib circle and his confessional opponents). Comenius was concise, firm and self-confident in his correspondence with German educational reformers. When it came to his confessional opponents, however, he did not hesitate to employ harshly defamatory and mocking rhetoric. Special attention is paid to the emotional codes and language of scholarly love which Comenius used in his communication with Samuel Hartlib from 1634 onwards. The author shows that these usages related both to an idea of non-utilitarian friendship and mutual love between scholars and to strategies for acquiring financial support. Comenius adopted only some aspects of emotional language during the 1630s. These were likely those parts which were moderate enough to be reconciled with his religious identity and self-fashioning. Instead of developing a specific discourse of male intimacy or a homoerotic vocabulary, he adopted elements of the epistolary rhetoric shared by Hartlib and his collaborators. His emotional codes belonged to a learned practice of letter-writing that Comenius mastered by reading and imitating letters circulated within the Hartlib circle. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2021 Electronic address http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0310601
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