Egy elfeledett tankönyv: Névy László Az írásművek elmélete című tankönyve

Névy László Az írásművek elmélete című tankönyve

Abstract

László Névy’s textbook Az írásművek elmélete (The theory of writings) was first published in 1870.
This time was the emergence of a paradigm that treated stylistics and poetics as two sovereign
disciplines. Névy’s textbook discusses stylistics and poetics within one rhetorical framework, as
it stands at the beginning of this process. On the one hand the textbook is thus interesting from
the perspective of the history of science, and on the other hand it is also important as a textbook
on its own, as it has been published nine times in twenty-five years. The author follows a strict
system. With his aim to provide unified definitions and interpretations, he strongly contributes
to the renewal of the terminology of rhetorics. He always explains the rules through texts and
readings while using a rich repertoire of examples and a large number of quotations in order to
explain the abstract concepts to the students. His primary purpose is to teach students all the
knowledge that enables them to produce pieces of writing and speeches on their own.