Odious praise : rhetoric, religion, and social thought /

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, Machi...

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Main Author:	MacPhail, Eric (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Rhetoric, Ancient. Rhetoric. Praise in literature. Praise > Religious aspects. Epideictic rhetoric