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<p>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 <i>copia</i>—abundance of expression—and the rhetorical practices essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a synonym for <i>copia</i>, making the humanism of which <i>copia</i> is a central element an inherently st

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Author

Christine Hoffmann

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319637518

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Language Learning

Updated

2026-03-25