La retórica en el siglo XX. Hacia una Retórica General

Abstract

During the 20th century, especially in the second half, a progressive return to the Rethoric as a general theory of the discourse, was produced. Not only in aspects referring to the linguistic pragmatic, but also in everything related to the production and reception of literary texts. After Perelman’s and Olbrech-Tyteca’s works, this neo-rethoric view was enlarged to the extent that, after the crisis of the estructuralistic theories of poetry, the re-examination of the rethoric corpus has become a way of progress for the Literary Theory in the 21th century. This was by means of constructing a General Literary Rethoric in which other human discourse sciences take part. All of these theories which were developed during the 20th century are analysed in this article, by way of interdisciplinary aspiration that directs the general theory of the discourse.