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Rhetoric, humor, and the public sphere : from Socrates to Stephen Colbert / Elizabeth Benacka.
Van Pelt Library PN6231.P6 B386 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benacka, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colbert, Stephen, 1964-.
- Colbert, Stephen.
- Political satire, American.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- Politics and government--Humor.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- United States--Politics and government--Humor.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 165 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- The Rhetorical Function of Humor in the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert investigates classical and contemporary understandings of satire, parody, and irony, and how these genres function within a deliberative democracy. Elizabeth Benacka examines the rhetorical history, theorization, and practice of humor from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary United States. In particular, this book focuses on the contemporary work of Stephen Colbert and his parody of a conservative media pundit, analyzing how his humor took place in front of an uninitiated audience and ridiculed a variety of problems and controversies threatening American democracy. Ultimately, Benacka emphasizes the importance of humor as a source of information in contemporary society, as well as a discourse capable of calling forth a group of engaged citizens.
- Contents:
- Wisdom from the ancients : the rhetorical history of humor
- Damn Yankees : the history and practice of humor in the United States
- Correspondents and Colbert : address at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner
- Congress and Colbert : testimony on "protecting our nation's harvest" in 2010 before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security
- Citizens United and Colbert : the satirical super PAC, "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow"
- Citizen Colbert : humor as rhetorical education in the public sphere.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Benacka, Elizabeth, author. Rhetoric, humor, and the public sphere
- ISBN:
- 9781498519861
- 1498519865
- OCLC:
- 966242715
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