Reading Roman Declamation - Calpurnius Flaccus

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-11-068513-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, 173 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 294 g

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As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of 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 Calpurnius Flaccus this volume demonstrates that these texts constitute a genre on their own, the rhetorical and literary framework of which remains not yet fully mapped. Contributions from an international group of leading scholars from the field of Roman Literature and Rhetoric will explore the question of how Roman Declamation functions as a literary genre. This volume investigates the literary technique and the generic conventions of in its social, pedagocial and ethical context to determine “the poetics” of Roman Declamation.

This volume is of interest to students and scholars of Rhetoric and Roman Literature.

If you are interested in Roman Declamation, we also recommend the volume on the Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian by the same editors to you.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Roman literature, esp. rhetoric and decla

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dinter, Martin T.

Guérin, Charles

Martinho, Marcos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Martin T. Dinter, King’s College London; Charles Guérin, Université Paris Est - Créteil; Marcos Martinho, University of Sao Paulo.