Book Review| August 01 2018 Review: L’écriture des traités de rhétorique des origines à la Renaissance, edited by Sophie Conte and Sandrine Dubel L’écriture des traités de rhétorique des origines à la Renaissance, textes édités par Sophie Conte et Sandrine Dubel, Ausonius, Scripta Antiqua87, Bordeaux 2016, 241 pages. ISBN: 9782356131614 Sylvie Franchet d'Espèrey Sylvie Franchet d'Espèrey Sylvie Franchet d'Espèrey Université de Paris-Sorbonne 17 rue Ménard 30 000 NÎMES France desperey.sylvie@sfr.fr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2018) 36 (3): 324–329. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2018.36.3.324 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sylvie Franchet d'Espèrey; Review: L’écriture des traités de rhétorique des origines à la Renaissance, edited by Sophie Conte and Sandrine Dubel. Rhetorica 1 August 2018; 36 (3): 324–329. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2018.36.3.324 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2018 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This article considers the difficulties faced by Quintilian in classifying and understanding apostrophe. He treats it as both a figure of thought, with examples from oratory, and a figure of speech, with examples from Virgilin which the narrator addresses characters of the poem. By inserting the otherwise unobtrusive narrator into the narrative, the effect of the Virgilian examples is to collapse the distinction between narration and narrative. Since Quintilian does not have this means of linguistic analysis at his disposal, he defines apostrophe as a figure of speech by bringing it into relation with other figures that also produce an effect of rupture at the level of narration, and he uses other oppositions that offer an imperfect treatment of the problem.