Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write well) as questions or categories for interpreting one's reading. The first chapter presents the questions. Later chapters use rhetorical theory to bring out the implications of, and suggest possible answers to, the questions: about occasion and audience (chapter 2), structure and disposition (3), narrative (4), argument (5), further elements of content, such as descriptions, comparisons, proverbs and moral axioms, dialogue, and examples (6), and style (7). Chapter eight describes ways of gathering material, formulating arguments and writing about the texts one reads. The conclusion considers the wider implications of taking a rhetorical approach to reading. The investigation of rhetoric's questions is interspersed with analyses of texts by Chaucer, Sidney, Shakespeare, Fielding and Rushdie, using the questions. The text is intended for university students of literature, especially English literature, and rhetoric, and their teachers.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Early Modern Literature in History
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Peter Mack
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	112
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-60157-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	3-319-60157-1
Barcode:	9783319601571

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