Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86791-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 178 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mack, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Questions.- 2. Audience and Occasion.- 3. Structure and Disposition.- 4. Content 1: Narrative.- 5. Content 2: Argument.- 6. Content 3: Further Elements.- 7. Style and Delivery.- 8. From Reading to Writing.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Mack FBA is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. 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). He has been Director of the Warburg Institute, chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies, and editor of the journal Rhetorica.