Download e-book for iPad: Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to by Elizabeth Benacka

By Elizabeth Benacka

ISBN-10: 1498519865

ISBN-13: 9781498519861

Rhetoric, Humor, and the general public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert investigates classical and modern understandings of satire, parody, and irony, and the way those genres functionality inside a deliberative democracy. Elizabeth Benacka examines the rhetorical background, theorization, and perform of humor spanning from historical Greece and Rome to the modern usa. particularly, this booklet makes a speciality of the modern paintings of Stephen Colbert and his parody of a conservative media pundit, studying how his humor came about in entrance of an uninitiated viewers and ridiculed numerous difficulties and controversies threatening American democracy. finally, Benacka emphasizes the significance of humor as a discourse able to calling forth a gaggle of engaged voters and a resource of civic schooling in modern society.

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