Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (2016)

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Title Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian
Volume 342 of Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
Editors Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016
ISBN 3110352516, 9783110352511
Length 320 pages
Subjects Language Arts & Disciplines › Linguistics › General

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 (Ps)Quintilian’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.