Research Catalog

Title

The arts of imitation in Latin prose : Pliny's epistles/Quintilian in brief / Christopher Whitton.

Author

Whitton, Christopher, 1979-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xviii, 557 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Quintilian
• Pliny, the Younger
• Epistularum libri IX (Pliny, the Younger)
• Institutiones oratoriae (Quintilian)
• Imitation in literature
• Latin literature > History and criticism
• Latin literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Two Scenes from the Life of an Artist -- Into the Groves (Ep. 1.6) -- At Home with Pliny (Ep. 9.36) -- 2. Setting the Stage -- Dramatis personae (with Ep. 4.11 and 4.13) -- Quintilian's Institutio -- the Early Years -- A Tale of Two Plinies -- Imitatio on and off the Page -- (i). Allusion and Imitation: a Dialectic -- (ii). The Ethics of imitatio (Ep. 1.2) -- 3. Brief Encounters -- Point to Point (Ep. 1.10, 1.22, 5.20, 8.14) -- A World of Epigrams -- Transferring Metaphor (Ep. 1.13, 4.11, 5.10, 5.20, 6.33, 9.35) -- Totting Up -- 4. Dancing with Dialectic -- Prelude: the Arts of Dialogue (Ep. 3.7 and 9.19) -- Satis superque (Ep. 6.2) -- Home Schooling (Ep. 3.3) -- The Unfulled Folk (Ep. 7.17) -- Performance Art (Ep. 2.19) -- 5. Through the Looking-Glass -- The Fight for History (Ep. 5.8) -- Shadows (Ep. 3.13) -- Mores oratoris (Ep. 4.7) -- Arias of Asia (Ep. 2.14) -- Mind the Glass -- 6. On Length, in Brief (Ep. 1.20) -- Breuitas in Brief -- Brief Delay -- Orotic, actio and the Archetype -- Atticism for Beginners -- Orator ad Taciturn -- Postscript (Ep. 1.21) -- 7. Letters to Lupercus -- Pliny on the Precipice (Ep. 9.26) -- Institutio in Brief? (Ep. 2.5) -- 8. Studiorum secessus (Ep. 7.9) -- Working Holiday -- Exercitatio Three Ways -- Of Variety and Versification -- Excursus: Bithynia, Briefly (Ep. 4.14) -- Easy When You Know How -- Back to studia -- Postscript (Ep. 7.30) -- 9. Docendo discitur -- Meet Fuscus and Quadrants (Ep. 6. n) -- Institutio Ignored? (Ep. 6.29) -- Quintessentially Pliny (Ep. 9.36) -- Memories (Ep. 9.40) -- 10. Reflections of an Author -- Imperial Interactions (Ep. 2.9 and 8.4) -- Found Before Her Time (Ep. 5.16) -- Grand Designs (rpt.) -- Dc senectute (Ep. 3.1) -- Instituting Uncle Pliny (Ep. 3.5) -- Intimations of Immortality (Ep. 9.3) -- 11. Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus -- What's in a Name? (Ep. 9.23) -- Imitatio Three Ways (Ep. 10 and Pan.) -- Lector scrupulosus (Ann. -- Ep., Dial -- Inst.) -- Reading P Read T (Reading Q) (Ep. -- Did.) -- Back to the Groves (Ep. 1.6 and 9.10) -- Into the Silence (Ep. 9.14) -- 12. Beginnings -- Opening the Institutio -- Opening the Epistles (Ep. 1.1 -- 2, 9.1 -- 2).

Call Number

JFE 19-10785

ISBN

• 9781108476577
• 1108476570
• 9781108701068
• 110870106X

LCCN

2018045894

OCLC

1053609538

Author

Whitton, Christopher, 1979- author.

Title

The arts of imitation in Latin prose : Pliny's epistles/Quintilian in brief / Christopher Whitton.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10785