Overview
Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Author: Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido ,
Victoria Pineda
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 7
Weight: 1.016kg
ISBN: 9789004321793
ISBN 10: 9004321799
Pages: 548
Publication Date: 30 March 2017
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This volume is an important defence of compilations and anthologies as fundamental to premodern and early modern text culture and rhetorical education. (...) this volume is a cogent prompt for classicists to reflect not only on how readers in antiquity anthologized from histories, but even more importantly on how anthologizing may have been a factor in historiographical composition. Most significantly, it provides useful resources for the reception of classics through anthologies. Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.09.24
Author Information
J. C. Iglesias-Zoido, Ph.D. (1992), teaches Classical Philology at the University of Extremadura. Previous publications on Thucydides and historiographical speeches include Retórica e historiografía (Madrid, 2008) and El legado de Tucídides en la cultura occidental (Coimbra, 2011). Victoria Pineda, Ph.D. (1993), University of Michigan, teaches Comparative Literature at Universidad de Extremadura. Her most recent publications include a book on Luis Cernuda’s ekphrastic poems (Barcelona, 2017) and a critical edition of Lope de Vega's Los Prados de León (Madrid, 2017). Contributors are: Luis Ballesteros Pastor, Robert D. Black, José María Candau, David Carmona, Immacolata Eramo, Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido, M. Teresa Jiménez Calvente, Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Roberto Nicolai, Valentina Nider, Carmen Peraita, M. Violeta Pérez Custodio, Victoria Pineda, María Sanz Julián, Florence Serrano, Xavier Tubau, and Joaquín Villalba Álvarez.
