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The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents
By (Author) Annette H. Tomarken
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
840.9003
Hardback
370
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
680g
To teach the truth smilingly was, during the Renaissance, a frequently expressed goal among prose writers and poets such as Erasmus, Berni, Ronsard, Rabelais, and du Bellay, who adopted an ironic posture within their mock encomia in order to refer the reader beyond the realm of the literary structure. In this book Annette Tomarken reconstructs the