Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

ISBN-13: 9783110352405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str.

Martin Dinter; Charles Guerin; Marcos Martinho

Opis

As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of declamatio into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. Focusing on the oeuvre of (Ps)Quintilian, this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. It is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature.

O autorze

Martin Dinter, King s College London; Charles Guérin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier; Marcos Martinho, Universidade de São Paulo.