Reading Roman Declamation (E-Book, EPUB)

<p>As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction,<em>declamatio</em>offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of<em>declamatio</em> 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.<br></p>