invective
Is literature which, having regard to the customs and convictions of a given society, sets out to denigrate a named individual. Such denigration or abuse follows well‐articulated rhetorical ...
life-writing
A modern term meant to cover the general realm of non-fictional writings about the lives, experiences, and memories of individual people or small groups of people. Thus although excluding most other ...
Polemic, Religious
A branch of theological literature whose purpose was to attack a disputed theological position and justify the attacker's own stance. Unlike invective, polemical works were directed primarily against ...
