Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation (Early Modern Literature in History)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3319601571 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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). The first chapter presents the questions. Chapter eight describes ways of gathering material, formulating arguments and writing about the texts one reads. The text is intended for university students of literat
Peter Mack is a major scholar and critic of rhetoric whose work has explained and illuminated the ways in which the work of Greek and Latin writers was adopted and adapted by thinkers in the European Renaissance to establish how we write and read today. Rhetoric’s Questions models how to use these questions to analyze significant literary texts, both historical and contemporary, with sophistication and depth. It is hard to imagine any readers who will not learn a great deal from the author’s insights.” (Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English at University of Sussex, UK and Chair for Society for Renaiss
His books include: Renaissance Argument (1993), Elizabethan Rhetoric (2002), Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010) and A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (2011). Peter Mack FBA is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. He has been Director of the Warburg Institute, chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies, and editor of the journal Rh