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Sucking Up : A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy /
Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater. Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or grudgingly tolerate it as a price of getting along in a complex society, we rarely examine it closely. This boo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "Fittest imp of fraud"
- Word sounds and histories
- Cautionary tales
- The science of sycophancy
- Literature and sycophancy
- Sycophancy as an art form
- Sycophancy on the silver screen
- Transformative sycophancy
- How low can one go?