Screen LibraryStupid Humanism : Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-First-Century Culture /
This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia abundance of expression and the rhetori...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Early Modern Cultural Studies
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63751-8 |
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This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia abundance of expression and the rhetorical practices essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a synonym for copia, making the humanism of which copia is a central element an inherently stupid philosophy. A transhistorical exploration of stupidity demonstrates that not only is excess still the surest way to e |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XIV, 192 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319637518 |
| Index Number: | PN715 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | 1 Introduction: Spamming the Renaissance -- 2 Middling Through Somehow: Queer Temporality and the Disaster Meme -- 3 Folly 2020! The Campaign for Foolishness in 21st-Century Politics -- 4 The Anatomy of Public Shaming -- 5 What is Clickbait? (Check All That Apply) -- 6 The Faerie Queene, the Gif and the Rhetorical Stuplime. |