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Elizabethan Rhetoric
Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations, histories, romances, conduct manuals, privy council debates and personal letters. Elizabethan Rhetoric reconstructs the knowledge, skills and approaches which an Elizabethan would have acquired in order to participate in the political and religious debates of the time: the approaches to an audience, analysis and replication of textual structures, organisation of arguments and tactics for disputation. Study of the rhetorical codes and conventions in terms of which debates were conducted is currently a major area of historical and literary enquiry, and Mack provides a wealth of new information about what was taught and how these conventions were exploited in personal memoranda, court depositions, sermons and political and religious pamphlets. This important book will be invaluable for all those interested in the culture, literature and political history of the period.
Applebottoms & Cream
Peter Mack, a 2015 PEN America Center book prize winner, celebrates ten years of writing by returning to the origins of his writing career. Applebottoms & Cream features Dimp, the son of hood royalty who's manager of Applebottoms Gentlemen's Club. When his love for strippers gets him caught up with Russian Mob figures, his BRU family comes to his aide while ceremoniously dispatching the foreigners. Applebottoms Gentlemen's Club is featured in all Peter Mack novels. Here the reader is treated to the sex, violence, money and murder of a world only few know. Applebottoms & Cream features Ansar, a cameo character of other Peter Mack novels. He is in rare form here, exposing game that secures fin...
The Trap
Peter Mack returns to the streets of Los Angeles with an interwoven tale of the tragic consequences made by the choice of one recently released convict. Told in four separate narratives, four lives meet in a deadly conclusion, forcing hard decisions for the survivors. The Trap is 435 pages of sex, violence, money and murder; with a hard dose of love and family. When Clazo is released from prison, he sets out to catch up to the game by going on a seemingly easy robbery with his old friend, Snow. The money and drugs they steal belong to Billy Bob.Billy Bob is a new father. On the night that his baby is born he leaves his trusted friend Dubb to handle the recovery of his drugs and money, settin...
The Shabbiness of Beauty
The Shabbiness of Beauty' is a visual dialogue that crosses generational divides with the easy intimacy of a late-night phone call. Multidisciplinary artist Moyra Davey delved into Peter Hujar's archives and emerged mainly with little-known, scarcely seen images. In response to these, Davey created her own images that draw out an idiosyncratic selection of shared subjects. Side by side, the powerfully composed images admire, tease, and enhance one another in the manner of fierce friends, forming a visual exploration of physicality and sexuality that crackles with wit, tenderness, and perspicacity. Spiritually anchored in New York City, even as they range out to rural corners of Quebec and Pe...
Reading Old Books
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the present In literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings. Reading Old Books argues that the best way to understand tradition is by examining the moments when a writer takes up an old text and writes something new out of a dialogue with that text and the promptings of the present situation. The book examines Petra...
A Neighborly Affair
Sexual gratification isn' t the only thing on Sherrelle's mind, but after accidentally seeing her neighbor in the nude, he becomes her obsession. Injured football player Marlin is first surprised, then pleased to see his neighbor returning again and again to stare into his window while he sexes the wife he no-longer wants. Sherrelle is out to find independence from her controlling husband by starting a clothing line with her best friend; Indianapolis most sought after stripper. Marlin is trying to re-claim a football career with the help of a mysterious sports agent who trades on his sexual prowess. Find out if love can be found and dreams realized when neighbors hustle, lust, and carry on affairs that could ruin all those around them. Peter Mack is a writer of incredible skills and insight, every bit of A Neighborly Affair is fast-paced, stimulating and an eye-opener.
Renaissance Argument
This book studies the contributions of Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) and Rudolph Agricola (1444-1485) to rhetoric and dialectic. It analyses their influence on sixteenth century education, and on Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon and Ramus. It provides an introduction to the renaissance use of language.
Brer Mack
BRER MACK's title is inspired by the story of Brer Rabbit's Briar Patch, a place of struggle and reward. Peter Mack is the novelist pen name of Isiko Cooks, prolific author of over twenty-five genre bursting, highly reviewed novels and prescient memoirs, including FILTHY: Innocence Lost, winner of a 2015 PEN America Center book prize. BRER MACK details the spiritual lessons and secrets of personal discipline utilized to achieve success as a writer and businessman while incarcerated. The author offers a view into the influences, motivations, work ethic and spiritual beliefs that have guided and sustained him through stints in solitary confinement, loss, love, betrayal and prison politics. Isiko Cooks bares all with honesty and the insight evident in all of his memoirs and Peter Mack novels. He details personal strategies to achieve the reward of personal struggle for anyone in any endeavor. Isiko Cooks is President of Peter Mack Presents, LLC, parent company of Signature Peter Mack Apparel and The BRU CAPO Company. Learn more about this versatile and dynamic author at www.PeterMackPresents.com
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 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.
