Francesco Muzzioli
The strategies of the text

Rhetorics is still alive, even if unnoticed: it is used and widespread in advertising, political shows up to ordinary conversation. This book argues for the need of a modern literary theory to deal with rhetoric techniques, in order to better understand literary texts as pervaded of strategies and conflicts while clarifying the inner structure of “difficult” works – such as poetry, for instance. It therefore sets an intriguing introduction to the problems of literary texts analysis, in which general theoretical notions are always applied to specific readings of excerpts from contemporary literatures.