Acting with words
Subtitle: communication, rhetorical performance and performative acts in Latin literature
By: edited by Therese Fuhrer, Damien Nelis
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- n.F., 2. Reihe, Bd. 125; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- n.F., 2. Reihe, Bd. 125.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: ger; eng; fre
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9783825356682
Subjects: History and criticism; Ancient Rhetoric; Speech in literature; Latin literature; Mimesis in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Communication in literature; Performance in literature
Notes: Contributions in English, French and German.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Reden und Schweigen in Caesars Bellum Gallicum / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus; title: Der Schwanengesang des Crassus : Modi sprachlicher Repräsentation in Ciceros De oratore (3, 1-6) / Melanie Möller; title: Further voices in Propertius' Cynthia / Damien Nelis; title: Vergil's Aeneas and Venus acting with words : miscarried dialogues / Therese Fuhrer; title: Quam efficax est animi sermonisque grauitas : Dicta als Marker symbolischer Interaktion / Thomas Schirren; title: Indiscrétion et désobéissance : stratégies de construction du récit dans la Thébaïde de Stace / Valéry Berlincourt; title: Ipsa verba : Tacitus' verbatim quotations / Roland Mayer; title: Performance du mensonge : mise en scène de la narration trompeuse chez Pétrone et Apulée / Loreto Núñez; title: Fonctions du discours direct dans l'Orestis tragoedia de Dracontius / Lavinia Galli Milić; title: What is a literary speech act? : Quintilian, John Searle and the notion of 'constatives' / Alexander Arweiler.