Reading Roman Declamation

The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

312 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
• ISBN: 9783110352405
• Sprache: Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2015
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Klassische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Herausgegeben von: Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho