Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation
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 ch
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QUESTIONS, READING AND INTERPRETATION Peter Mack
Early Modern Literature in History Series editors Cedric C. Brown Department of English Literature University of Reading Reading, UK Andrew Hadfield School of English University of Sussex Brighton, UK ‘For over a year I have been privileged to use in my classes the list of questions around which Peter Mack’s new publication is constructed. They are the single best tool that I have found to help students determine ways not only to think about texts but more importantly to approach writing about them. Rhetoric’s Questions models how to use these questions to analyze significant literary texts, both historical and contemporary, with sophistication and depth. It is an invaluable resource.’ —Marjorie Curry Woods, Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English, The University of Texas at Austin, USA ‘We are familiar today with the ways that rhetoric can help in the teaching of writing and speaking, but less familiar with its role in teaching how to read and listen. But production and interpretation of discourse are reciprocal with one another, and Peter Mack’s provocative book on Rhetoric’s Questions restores rhetoric to its rightful place as a discipline that shows us how doing either activity teaches us to do the other. The history of rhetoric is a history of responses to a series of enduring and inescapable questions about human discourse, responses that range from reductive school books to philosophical treatises. Mack demonstrates that the now-familiar rhetorical answers to questions about how to produce discourse arise from answers to fundamental and ever-present questions about how to understand discourse. To teach the questions of rhetoric is simultaneously to teach how to read and write, to listen and speak, to understand and act.’ —Lawrence D. Green, Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at University of Southern California, USA
Within the period 1520–1740, this large, long-running series, with international representation discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share an historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures.
Editorial Board Sharon Achinstein, University of Oxford, UK John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge, UK Richard C McCoy, Columbia University, USA Jean Howard, Columbia University, USA Adam Smyth, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield, UK Michelle O’Callaghan, University of Reading, UK Steven Zwicker, Washington University, USA Katie Larson, University of Toronto, Canada More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14199
Peter Mack
Rhetoric’s Questions, Reading and Interpretation
Peter Mack Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies University of Warwick Coventry, UK
Early Modern Literature in History ISBN 978-3-319-60157-1 ISBN 978-3-319-60158-8 (eBook) DOI 10
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