Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian

✍ Scribed by Martin T. Dinter (editor), Charles Guérin (editor), Marcos Martinho (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English, German, French
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 342
• Edition: Multilingual
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Table of 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 émotions: l’ethos du déclamateur de la cinquième Grande déclamation
L’oeil à l’oeuvre dans le Tombeau ensorcelé 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 féminine dans les Grandes Déclamations à travers l’intertextualité
La medicina nelle Declamazioni maggiori pseudo-quintilianee
IV Contextualizing Roman Declamation. Ethics and Politics
Imaginative fiction beyond social and moral norms
Civitas Beluarum: The Politics of Eating Your Neighbor. A Semiological Study of Ps. Quintilian’s Twelfth Major Declamation
The Stepmother, the Foisted Poison and the Changed Will. Some preliminaries for pseudo-Quintilian, Decl. Mai. 2 and pseudo-Libanius, Decl. 49
Omnibus patemus insidiis: elite vulnerability in Major Declamations 11
Tyrans et tyrannicides dans les Petites déclamations
Bibliography
Index rerum
Index locorum