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Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

Parker, Deborah
Parker, Mark
Mendel, Scott

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Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0813940893
ISBN13: 9780813940892
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Oct 3 2017
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.59
Language: English

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 go buy Ivanka's stuff, 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.

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