Elizabeth Benacka

Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere

From Socrates to Stephen Colbert

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Produktbeschreibung

The Rhetorical Function of Humor in the Public Sphere advances an understanding about how humor functions persuasively in the public sphere as a means to ignite deliberative democracy, a tradition that dates back to Socrates and continues with Stephen Colbert.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781498519861
• ISBN-10: 1498519865
• Artikelnr.: 45798895

Autorenporträt

By Elizabeth Benacka

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