Problemas genológicos del discurso ensayístico: Origen y configuración de un género

Abstract

The purpose of this work consists of unfolding certain arguments that facilitate the task of clarifying the gender issues and the literary value of the essay. For it we have resorted
to a distinction between the essential theory and the conditional poetics. The latter has been of great effectiveness for they adjust better to the examination of a literary gender of
Renaissance modernity, not anticipated by the classical poetic. The conditional poetics raise the literary property of texts in relation with the contextual and non co-textual
levels. The argumentative structure of the essay constitutes the hinge that assembles the more or less systematic order of thought, reason why it approaches the theoretical
discourse, but the preoccupation about the “dispositio” and the “elocutio” of the rhetorical
structures projects it towards an artistic notion.