Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

by Martin T. Dinter (Editor), Charles Guerin (Editor), Marcos Martinho (Editor)

Overview

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 volumeshowcases 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 volumedemonstrates 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110352405
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	11/27/2015
Series:	Beitrage zur Altertumskunde Series
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v

Introduction: Reading Roman Declamation - The declamations ascribed to Quintilian 1

I Practicing Roman Declamation. The Rhetoric of Pedagogy

A Student Speaks for Social Equality in the Roman Classroom (Quintilian, Declamationes Minores 260) Anthony Corbeill 11

The Hidden Teacher. 'Metarhetoric' in Ps.-Quintilian's Major Declamations Antonio Stramaglia 25

II Constructing Roman Declamation. Quintilian's Literary Technique

La controuersia figurata chez Quintilien (Inst. 9.2.65-99). Quelle figure pour quel plaisir? Sylvie Franchet d'Espèrey 51

Entre raison et émotions: l'ethos du déclamateur de la cinquième Grande déclamation Danielle van Mal-Maeder 91

L'æil à l'æuvre dans le Tombeau ensorcelé du pseudo-Quintilien (Decl. 10) Catherine Schneider 109

Fama in Ps-Quintilian's Major Declamations Martin T. Dinter 127

III Perusing Roman Declamation. Genre and Intertext

Noverca et mater crudelis. La perversion féminine dans les Grandes Déclamations à travers l'intertextualité Julien Pingoud et Alessandra Rolle 147

La medicina nelle Declamazioni maggiori pseudo-quintilianee Giovarma Longo 167

IV Contextualizing Roman Declamation. Ethics and Politics

Imaginative fiction beyond social and moral norms Joy Connolly 191

Civitas Beluarum: The Politics of Eating Your Neighbor. A Semiological Study of Ps. Quintilian's Twelfth Major Declamation Orazio Cappello 209

The Stepmother, the Foisted Poison and the Changed Will. Some preliminaries for pseudo-Quintilian, Deci Mai. 2 and pseudo-Libanius, Decl 49 Gernot Krapinger 237

Omnibus patemus insidiis: elite vulnerability in Major Declamations 11 Neil W. Bernstein 253

Tyrans et tyrannicides dans les Petites déclamations Pablo Schwartz 267

Bibliography 279

Index rerum 297

Index locorum 301