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Reading Roman declamation : the declamations ascribed to Quintilian / edited by Martin T. Dinter, Charles Gurin, Marcos Martinho.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, Italian Series: Beitr�age zur AltertumskundePublisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110352511
  • 3110352516
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Roman declamation.DDC classification:
  • 808.5/1 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6651 .R43 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction. Reading Roman Declamation -- The declamations ascribed to Quintilian ; I Practicing Roman Declamation. The Rhetoric of Pedagogy ; A Student Speaks for Social Equality in the Roman Classroom (Quintilian, Declamationes Minores 260).
The Hidden Teacher. 'Metarhetoric' in Ps.-Quintilian's Major Declamations II Constructing Roman Declamation. Quintilian's Literary Technique ; La controuersia figurata chez Quintilien (Inst. 9.2.65-99). Quelle figure pour quel plaisir?
Entre raison et �emotions: l'ethos du d�eclamateur de la cinqui�eme Grande d�eclamation L'oeil �a l'oeuvre dans le Tombeau ensorcel�e du pseudo-Quintilien (Decl. 10) ; Fama in Ps-Quintilian's Major Declamations ; III Perusing Roman Declamation. Genre and Intertext.
Noverca et mater crudelis. La perversion f�eminine dans les Grandes D�eclamations �a travers l'intertextualit�e La medicina nelle Declamazioni maggiori pseudo-quintilianee ; IV Contextualizing Roman Declamation. Ethics and Politics ; Imaginative fiction beyond social and moral norms.
Summary: 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 (Ps0Quintillian's oeuvre into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. It is of interest to students and scholars of rhetoric and Roman Literature.
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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 (Ps0Quintillian's oeuvre into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. It is of interest to students and scholars of rhetoric and Roman Literature.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Reading Roman Declamation -- The declamations ascribed to Quintilian ; I Practicing Roman Declamation. The Rhetoric of Pedagogy ; A Student Speaks for Social Equality in the Roman Classroom (Quintilian, Declamationes Minores 260).

The Hidden Teacher. 'Metarhetoric' in Ps.-Quintilian's Major Declamations II Constructing Roman Declamation. Quintilian's Literary Technique ; La controuersia figurata chez Quintilien (Inst. 9.2.65-99). Quelle figure pour quel plaisir?

Entre raison et �emotions: l'ethos du d�eclamateur de la cinqui�eme Grande d�eclamation L'oeil �a l'oeuvre dans le Tombeau ensorcel�e du pseudo-Quintilien (Decl. 10) ; Fama in Ps-Quintilian's Major Declamations ; III Perusing Roman Declamation. Genre and Intertext.

Noverca et mater crudelis. La perversion f�eminine dans les Grandes D�eclamations �a travers l'intertextualit�e La medicina nelle Declamazioni maggiori pseudo-quintilianee ; IV Contextualizing Roman Declamation. Ethics and Politics ; Imaginative fiction beyond social and moral norms.

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In English, French and Italian.

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