Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio oratoria (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809313782 ISBN 13: 9780809313785

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Quintilian’s method is based on the interrelationship between speaking, reading, and writing. Murphy lists and defines the main elements that appear in the Institutio oratorio. Each of these elements?Precept, Imitation, Composition Exercises, Declamation, and Sequencing?is further subdivided according to goals and exercises.

 

The first two books of the Institutio oratorio concern the early education of the orator, with the focus on the interplay between seen-language and heard-language. Book Ten is an adult’s commentary on the instruction of rhetoric. It involves itself primarily with facilitas, the readiness to use language in any situation.

 

About this title

About the Author:

James J. Murphy, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty-four books on rhetoric, including A Short History of Writing Instruction and A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Latin (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0809313782
• ISBN 13: 9780809313785
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Murphy James J.