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Episode Synopsis
The seventh episode of A Histoy of Literary Criticism. For today’s episode, we return to the study of rhetoric with a discussion of Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria. First I’ll outline Quintilian’s biography and the social context in which he lived, then I’ll give a brief overview of Institutio Oratoria before focusing on books 8, 9 and 12, which are the excerpts included in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.
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