Elizabeth Benacka

Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere (eBook, ePUB)

From Socrates to Stephen Colbert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rhetoric, Humor, and 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 spanning 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 discourse capable of calling forth a group of engaged citizens and a source of civic education in contemporary society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498519878
• Artikelnr.: 47042602

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Benacka is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Lake Forest College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Wisdom from the Ancients: The Rhetorical History of Humor
Chapter 2
Damn Yankees: The History and Practice of Humor in the United States
Chapter 3
Correspondents and Colbert: Address at the 2006 White House Correspondents'
Dinner
Chapter 4
Congress and Colbert: Testimony on "Protecting our Nation's Harvest" in
2010 Before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border
Security
Chapter 5
Citizens United and Colbert: The Satirical Super PAC, "Americans for a
Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow"
Chapter 6
Citizen Colbert: Humor as Rhetorical Education in the Public Sphere
Bibliography
About the Author