Odious Praise Donald M. Hilty Synthesizing research from multiple disciplines

Synthesizing research from multiple disciplines with carefully constructed case studies

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it is an authoritative guide to an issue that is causing increasingly large concern for FE and HE institutions and covers multiple evidence-backed approaches with a pragmatic focus

Odious Praise Donald M. Hilty Synthesizing research from multiple disciplinesThis book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious praise uses acclaim to censure or to critique. This book reassesses the genre of praise and blame rhetoric by considering the potential of odious praise to undermine consensus and to challenge a