Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation

by Peter Mack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319601571
• ISBN13: 9783319601571
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"