Author: Manuwald, Gesine
Title: Performance and rhetoric in Cicero’s ” Philippics “
Review/Collection: "Antichthon", 38
Year edition: 2004
Pages: 51-69
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: In recent years, the idea of ‘performance’ has become a more and more important concept for the analysis of literary texts, even if the notion of ‘performance’ in literary criticism still does not denote a single agreed theory, but is a collective term referring to a number of different aspects and methods. The performance approach seems obvious for some literary genres, like drama and also oratory, for which performance is an essential characteristic. In the case of orations, in antiquity already a detailed doctrine of the perfect performance was established, both in theory and practice. Building on this knowledge and trying to recover the quintessential context of a speech, people have successfully attempted to explore a Roman orator's potential and to contexrualize Roman orations by reconstructing the delivery of sample speeches. [Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antichthon/article/performance-and-rhetoric-in-ciceros-philippics/19FB7947CF01AFD6A95BAA95F5768FA5
Author initials: Manuwald 2004
Title: Performance and rhetoric in Cicero’s ” Philippics “
Review/Collection: "Antichthon", 38
Year edition: 2004
Pages: 51-69
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: In recent years, the idea of ‘performance’ has become a more and more important concept for the analysis of literary texts, even if the notion of ‘performance’ in literary criticism still does not denote a single agreed theory, but is a collective term referring to a number of different aspects and methods. The performance approach seems obvious for some literary genres, like drama and also oratory, for which performance is an essential characteristic. In the case of orations, in antiquity already a detailed doctrine of the perfect performance was established, both in theory and practice. Building on this knowledge and trying to recover the quintessential context of a speech, people have successfully attempted to explore a Roman orator's potential and to contexrualize Roman orations by reconstructing the delivery of sample speeches. [Author]
Works:
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antichthon/article/performance-and-rhetoric-in-ciceros-philippics/19FB7947CF01AFD6A95BAA95F5768FA5
Author initials: Manuwald 2004
