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Odious praise : rhetoric, religion, and social thought / Eric MacPhail.
LIBRA PA3038 .M33 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacPhail, Eric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Rhetoric.
- Praise in literature.
- Praise--Religious aspects.
- Praise.
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Isocrates and the genealogy of odious praise
- Platonic values : Polycrates and the politics of epideictic
- Ciceronian values : Cicero and the praise of Latin
- Church values : Lorenzo Valla and the praise of Thomas Aquinas
- Religion and the limits of praise : Isocrates and the praise of superstition.
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Platonic Values: Polycrates and the Politics of Epideictic
- 2. Ciceronian Values: Cicero and the Praise of Latin
- 3. Church Values: Lorenzo Valla and the Praise of Thomas Aquinas
- 4. Religion and the Limits of Praise: Isocrates and the Praise of Superstition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780271092331
- 0271092335
- OCLC:
- 1274201885
- Publisher Number:
- 99990694269
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