Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

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Mack Peter
Springer, Berlin
EAN: 9783319601571
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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. 

EAN 9783319601571
ISBN 3319601571
Binding Hardback
Publisher Springer, Berlin
Publication date September 1, 2017
Pages 112
Language English
Dimensions 210 x 148
Country Switzerland
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Mack Peter
Illustrations XIII, 112 p.
Edition 1st ed. 2017
Series Early Modern Literature in History