Sucking Up (eBook)

A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

Deborah Parker, Mark Parker (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
136 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4090-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 book humorously considers that slavish art from the historical past to our current political environment, and particularly through the revealing lens of literature. Some of the grandest examples of yes-men appear in these pages--from Dante's flatterers and Dickens's Uriah Heep to Kellyanne Conway, who urged us to "e;go buy Ivanka's stuff,"e; and the obsequious soul who apologized to Vice President Cheney for being shot by him.More relevant now than ever, as sucking up becomes the master trope of the Trump era, this choice romp through the spectacular world of bowing and scraping will entertain and enlighten.

Autor

lt;p>Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. Mark Parker is Professor of English at James Madison University. They are coauthors of Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2017
• Mitarbeit: Sonstige Mitarbeit: Scott Mendel
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Charlottesville
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aristophanes • Austen • dostoevsky • Nixon • Plutarch • Uriah Heep
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-4090-7 / 0813940907
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4090-8 / 9780813940908