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This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue within which the rhetoric of the legitimate self is constructed. These fictions of the self are uncannily real, and these stagey dramas are in fact rehearsals for the serious play of Roman identity. Critics of declamation find themselves recapitulating the very logic of the genre they are refusing. When declamation is read in the light of the contemporary theory of the subject a wholly different picture emerges: this is a canny game played with and within the rhetoric of the self. This book makes broad claims for what is often seen as a narrow topic. An appendix includes a fresh translation and brief discussion of a sample of surviving examples of declamation.

Authority in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Oratory, Ancient. --- Paternity in literature. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Self in literature. --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin --- History and criticism. --- Ancient oratory --- Ancient rhetoric --- Antieke redekunst --- Antieke retoriek --- Antieke welsprekendheid --- Art oratoire de l'Antiquité --- Authority in literature --- Autorité dans la littérature --- Gezag in de literatuur --- Groepsgevoel in de literatuur --- Group identity in literature --- Identiteit (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Identiteit in de literatuur --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Identity in literature --- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Identité dans la littérature --- Identité de groupe dans la littérature --- Oratory [Ancient ] --- Paternity in literature --- Paternité dans la littérature --- Redekunst van de Oudheid --- Retoriek [Antieke ] --- Retoriek van de Oudheid --- Rhetoric [Ancient ] --- Rhétorique ancienne --- Rhétorique de l'Antiquité --- Self in literature --- Soi dans la littérature --- Vaderschap in de literatuur --- Zelf in de literatuur --- Oratory, Ancient --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- History and criticism --- Rhetoric --- Speeches, addresses, etc. [Latin ] --- Arts and Humanities --- History