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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (145 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271092409 0271092408 9780271092416 0271092416 |