Reading Roman Declamation - The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Assisted by: Martin Dinter (Editor), Martin T. Dinter (Editor), Charles Guerin (Editor), Charle Guérin (Editor), Charles Guérin (Editor), Marcos Martinho (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9783110352405
• ISBN: 978-3-11-035240-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 22 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 591 g
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Beiträge zur Altertumskunde (BzA); Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Beiträge zur Altertumskunde (BzA); ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies