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Reading Roman Declamation - Seneca the Elder (Hardcover)
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Reading Roman Declamation - Seneca the Elder (Hardcover)
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Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of
declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with
new forms of discourse. This volume places the literariness of
Roman declamation into the spotlight by showcasing its theoretical
influences, stylistic devices, and generic conventions as related
by Seneca the Elder, the author of the Controversiae and Suasoriae,
which jointly make up the largest surviving collection of
declamatory speeches from antiquity. Authored by an international
group of leading scholars of Latin literature and rhetoric, the
chapters explore not only the historical roles of individual
declaimers, but also the physical and linguistic techniques upon
which they collectively drew. In addition, the 'dark side of
declamation' is illuminated by contributions on the competitiveness
of the arena and the manipulative potential of declamatory skill
and, in keeping with the overall treatment of declamation as a
literary phenomenon, a section has also been dedicated to
intertextuality. Drawing on thought-provoking analyses of Seneca
the Elder's works, the volume highlights the complexity of these
texts and maps out, for the first time, the socio-cultural context
for their composition, delivery, and reception, as well as
providing a comprehensive, innovative, and up-to-date treatment of
Roman declamation that will be essential for both students and
scholars in the fields of Latin literature, Republican Roman
history, and rhetoric.
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