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Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought Eric MacPhail
Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought
Eric MacPhail
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
146 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 7, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271092331 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Pages | 146 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 144 g |
| Language | English |