Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138100293 ISBN 13: 9781138100299

Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to the stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form's capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.

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Matthew R. Meier is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at West Chester University in West Chester, PA.

Casey R. Schmitt is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Lakeland College in Howards Grove, WI.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138100293
• ISBN 13: 9781138100299
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Herausgeber: Meier Matthew R.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Deutschland