Sugary Texts

[John Dunn]

I can't speak for America, but it occurs to me that similarly sentiments were sometimes expressed in the 18th century, e.g. in book dedications and the text of God Save the Queen (King).  In general even those recent politicians (such as Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair) who inspired unwonted degrees of admiration among their followers were unlikely to be addressed in similar terms, though, having said that, I thought I discerned some rudimentary elements of 'sugary texts' in some of the more sycophantic comments about Tony Blair.

John Dunn.



-----Original Message-----
From: Valery Belyanin <vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:21:19 +0300
Subject: [SEELANGS] Sugary Texts

In the late 80-ies - in the beginning of the end of the epoch of socialism -
I wrote about sugary texts as a type of ideological socialist texts. Seems
not only in SF time may go backewards.
Some of you may be aware of the famous letter to the Presidents of the
Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (October, 16th 2007) :
"Russia needs your talent of the statesman, your political wisdom" etc.
Is it only typical of socialist discourse? What may be equivalent to this
type of texts in American discourse? Have anybody studied such kind of
rhetoric?
The full text is here:
http://www.rg.ru/2007/10/16/pismo.html
P.S. I admire Nikita Mikhalkov as the director of great movies.
P.P.S. And certainly I am a loyal Russian citizen.
-- 
Yours truly, Валерий Белянин / Valery Belyanin,

John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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