Description
Previous studies on the relationship between rhetorical theory and Roman poetry have generally taken the form of lists enumerating elements of style and arrangement that poets are said to have 'borrowed' from rhetorical critics. This book examines, and ultimately questions, this entrenched theoretical model and the very notion of rhetorical influence on which this paradigm is built. Tracing key moments in the poetic and the rhetorical traditions, in the context of which the problematic relationship of difference and similarity between rhetorical and poetic discourse is discussed, the book focuses on the cultural relevance of this intellectual divide in Roman literary culture. The study of rhetorical sources, such as Cicero, Seneca the Elder and Quintilian, and of select responses in Roman poetry, sheds light on long-standing scholarly assumptions about classical poetry as artless language and about the role of rhetoric in the construction of the decline of post-classical cultures.
Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.
About the Author
Irene Peirano Garrison is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. Her book, The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context (Cambridge, 2012), was awarded the 2015 Alexander McKay Prize for Vergilian Studies by the Vergilian Society.
Reviews
'... this carefully researched and deeply insightful book, lies in its ability to weave a compelling large-scale narrative building upon the detailed examination of a variety of different texts, both in prose and in poetry, each richly contextualised in its intellectual climate: the overall result is an original and exciting view of a fundamental chapter in the history of Roman literature and its reception.' Alessandro Schiesaro, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781107104242
Author Irene Peirano Garrison
Format Hardback
Page Count 294
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 560g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 157mm * 21mm
Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.
About the Author
Irene Peirano Garrison is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. Her book, The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake: Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context (Cambridge, 2012), was awarded the 2015 Alexander McKay Prize for Vergilian Studies by the Vergilian Society.
Reviews
'... this carefully researched and deeply insightful book, lies in its ability to weave a compelling large-scale narrative building upon the detailed examination of a variety of different texts, both in prose and in poetry, each richly contextualised in its intellectual climate: the overall result is an original and exciting view of a fundamental chapter in the history of Roman literature and its reception.' Alessandro Schiesaro, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781107104242
Author Irene Peirano Garrison
Format Hardback
Page Count 294
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 560g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 157mm * 21mm
