Rhetoric and praise in the letters of Pliny the Younger
This article discusses, based in the assumptions established by authors like Cicero (De oratore) and Quintilian (Institutio oratoria), how Pliny the Younger uses the epideictic genre in the letter I, 10. It analyzes the textual construction of the praise and the possible purposes of use this kind of...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) |
| Repositorio: | Rónai |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufjf.br:article/23040 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ronai/article/view/23040 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | epideitic genre letters of Pliny the younger letter I,10 gênero epidítico cartas de Plínio, o jovem carta I,10 |
| Sumario: | This article discusses, based in the assumptions established by authors like Cicero (De oratore) and Quintilian (Institutio oratoria), how Pliny the Younger uses the epideictic genre in the letter I, 10. It analyzes the textual construction of the praise and the possible purposes of use this kind of discourse in epistolary Plinian work. Such use might be related both to an establishment of exemplary virtue profiles as an explanation of the literary field that Pliny participates. |
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