Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23210990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Long (0000-0001-5838-5490, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 45-60 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | End of Dialogue in Antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511575464.004 |
| OpenAlex | W1534072693 |
| ISBN | 9780511575464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The project of this volume is to explain why the dialogue genre was put to minimal or no use by early Christian authors, despite the previous prominence of the genre in antiquity. One might approach our task in the following manner: first determine what attracts authors to dialogue form, and then use that determination to explain the genre's absence or rarity in early Christianity. For when we have unearthed the rationale for writing in dialogue form – a rationale common to all writers of dialogues – explaining the preference for other media will become a straightforward business; once we have found the desiderata secured by dialogue form, we can infer that early Christians thought that other genres would achieve the same ends more effectively, or alternatively that such desiderata simply ceased to be desiderata in the Christian era.
Art · Christianity · Early Christianity · Epistemology · Literature · Preference · Task (project management) · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Engineering · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |