Relocating Praise: Literary Modalities and Rhetorical Contexts by Alice G. den Otter, ISBN 9781551301419

Publisher Description:
'Relocating Praise' emerged from the 1998 conference on the Literary Modalities of Praise at Lakehead University, which attracted scholars from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. As the papers in this collection demonstrate, praise occupies an active, progressive place in literature. The representation of praise creates anew the values it once was thought merely to reinforce. Among the writers discussed in the essays are Margaret Laurence, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Raymond Chandler. Contributors include Nicole E Didicher, Joan Dolphin, Kim Fedderson, J Douglas Kneale, Karmen MacKendrick, JoAnn McCaig, Kathleen McConnell, Ken Paradis, John Michael Richardson, Constance Rooke, Sandra Sabatino, Erika Scheurer.