Modern Rhetoric: Sermons of Julius Sasnauskas
Modern Rhetoric: Sermons of Julius Sasnauskas

Summary/Abstract: Rhetoric, literature and musical arts, which had syncretic origins, progressed in close interaction through many centuries, sometimes approaching each other and sometimes distancing from one another. In the 19th century, the significance of the rhetoric had diminished after the poetics and stylistics have broken away; it became irrelevant. In the middle of the 20th century, the period of the new rhetoric began, when the rhetoric was particularly closely linked to the science of communication, and it began to be perceived, according to Chaim Perelman, as “a theory of a persuasive communication” (as cited in Koženiauskienė 2001: 15). At that time, the practical-communicative rhetoric flourished, though in the 21st century there is a start of a comeback to canonical rhetoric studies, also historical and typological studies of rhetorical and musical interactions are highly actualised. At present rhetoric is perceived both, as multidisciplinary and multifunctional art and as science: “Rhetoric is characteristic of the scientific consciousness as much as of artistic” (Lotman 2004: 182)

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