Odious Praise

Odious Praise

Eric MacPhail

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Penn State University Press
Año de edición:
2022
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Semántica, análisis del discurso, etc.
ISBN:
9780271092331
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Reassesses the genre of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance by looking at a series of texts that exploit the potential of praise to undermine consensus and to challenge the normative values of society. The authors covered range from Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Erasmus, Machiavelli, and Montaigne

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