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, Machiavelli, and Montaigne

About the author

Eric MacPhail is Professor of French and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University and editor of the journal Erasmus Studies. His books include The Sophistic Renaissance, Dancing Around the Well, and Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment.

Product details

• Authors: Eric MacPhail
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2022
• EAN: 9780271092331
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09233-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 144 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Political science & theory, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, rhetoric;values;praise;epideictic;religion