The Power Of Satire

Author : Marijke Meijer Drees,Sonja de Leeuw
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268556

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The Power of Satire by Marijke Meijer Drees,Sonja de Leeuw Pdf

Satire is clearly one of today’s most controversial socio-cultural topics. In this edited volume, The Power of Satire, it is studied for the first time as a dynamic, discursive mode of performance with the power of crossing and contesting cultural boundaries. The collected essays reflect the fundamental shift from literary satire or straightforward literary rhetoric with a relatively limited societal impact, to satire’s multi-mediality in the transnational public space where it can cause intercultural clashes and negotiations on a large scale. An appropriate set of heuristic themes – space, target, rhetoric, media, time – serves as the analytical framework for the investigations and determines the organization of the book as a whole. The contributions, written by an international group of experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, manifest academic standards with a balance between theoretical analyses and evaluations on the one hand, and in-depth case studies on the other.

Author : Robert C. Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Magic
ISBN : OCLC:1398213

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The Power of Satire by Robert C. Elliott Pdf

Author : Mark Knights,Adam Morton
Publisher : Boydell Press is
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1783272031

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The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain by Mark Knights,Adam Morton Pdf

Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them.

Author : Al Gini,Abraham Singer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538129722

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The Sanity of Satire by Al Gini,Abraham Singer Pdf

Political humor and satire are, perhaps, as old as comedy itself, and they are crucial to our society and our collective sense of self. Satire is confrontational. It’s about pushback, dissent, discord, disappointment, and demonstrating the absurdity of the status quo. This book is an attempt to explore how these aspects of satire help secure our sanity. Aristotle famously said that humans are naturally political animals. We need political community to flourish and live good lives. But politics also entails unpopular decisions, oppression, and power struggles. Satire is a vehicle through which we reflect on and challenge the irrational, incomprehensible, and intolerable nature of our lives without becoming totally despondent or depressed. In a poignant, pithy, but not ponderous manner, Al Gini and Abraham Singer delve into the history of satire to rejoice in its triumphs and watch its development from ancient graffiti to the latest late-night TV talk show.

Author : Catherine M. Schlegel
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299209537

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Satire and the Threat of Speech by Catherine M. Schlegel Pdf

In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of hostile speech provides insights into the operations of verbal control that are relevant to his time and to ours. She demonstrates that though Horace is forced by his political circumstances to develop a new, unthreatening style of satire, his poems contain a challenge to our most profound habits of violence, hierarchy, and domination. Focusing on the relationships between speaker and audience and between old and new style, Schlegel examines the internal conflicts of a notoriously difficult text. This exciting contribution to the field of Horatian studies will be of interest to classicists as well as other scholars interested in the genre of satire.

Author : Robert C. Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Satire
ISBN : OCLC:15749365

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The Power of Satire by Robert C. Elliott Pdf

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781107030183

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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire by Jonathan Greenberg Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

Author : John Snyder
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813156880

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Prospects Of Power by John Snyder Pdf

Genre -- the articulation of "kind" -- is one of the oldest and most continuous subjects of theoretical and critical commentary. Yet from Romanticism to postmodernism, the concept of genre has been punched with so many holes that today it hardly seems graspable, let alone viable. By combining theory with dialectical literary histories of three significantly different genres -- tragedy, satire, and the essay -- John Snyder reconstructs genre as the figural deployment of symbolic power. One purpose of this approach is to reconcile the recent dismantling of representational and classificatory genres with the incipient notion in post-Althusser Marxism that genre is the crucial mediation between history and aesthetics. Snyder extends certain implications of Aristotle, Benjamin, Bakhtin, Foucault, and Serres. He also offers the first antisystem yet comprehensive genre theory to serve as a fully distinct alternate to Frye's formalist and Genette's structuralist schemes. Finally, Snyder's theory of genre as power opens a way to a fundamentally new theory of literature itself: that aesthetic language deployed as power organizes itself as generic intervention. Three historically dynamic configurations establish the range of all possible genres -- tragedy as power politically deployed as mimesis, satire as power rationally deployed as rhetoric, and the essay as power textually deployed as constative rhetoric. Specific analyses developing this important new theory cover a broad spectrum of literature, from classical to contemporary. Other genres, different media, and a variety of subgenres and modes political and religious -- all acquire fresh significance from the elaborations of Snyder's three selected genres.

Author : Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814731994

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Satire TV by Jonathan Gray,Jeffrey P. Jones,Ethan Thompson Pdf

This work examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programmes, from 'The Daily Show' to 'South Park'.

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319567747

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Satire and Politics by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire. Rooted in 18th century Augustan practice, satire’s indelible link with politics underlies today’s universal disgust with the ways of elected politicians. This study interrogates the impact of British and American satirical media on political life, with a special focus on political cartoons and the levelling humour of Australasian satirists.

Author : S. McClennen,R. Maisel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137405210

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Is Satire Saving Our Nation? by S. McClennen,R. Maisel Pdf

The book studies the intersections between satirical comedy and national politics in order to show that one of the strongest supports for our democracy today comes from those of us who are seriously joking. This book shows how we got to this place and why satire may be the only way we can save our democracy and strengthen our nation.

Author : Annie Gérin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487502430

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Devastation and Laughter by Annie Gérin Pdf

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie G?rin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin. G?rin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and propaganda was neither marginal nor un-theorized. The author sheds light on the theoretical texts written in the 1920s and 1930s by Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, and the impact his writings had on satirists. While the Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism were necessarily forward-looking and utopian, satire afforded artists the means to examine critically past and present subjects, themes, and practice. Devastation and Laughter is the first work to bring Soviet theoretical writings on the use of satire to the attention of scholars outside of Russia. By introducing important bodies of work that have largely been overlooked in the fields of art history, film and theatre history, Annie G?rin provides a nuanced and alternative reading of early Soviet art.

Author : Amber Day
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780253005144

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Satire and Dissent by Amber Day Pdf

In an age when Jon Stewart frequently tops lists of most-trusted newscasters, the films of Michael Moore become a dominant topic of political campaign analysis, and activists adopt ironic, fake personas to attract attention—the satiric register has attained renewed and urgent prominence in political discourse. Amber Day focuses on the parodist news show, the satiric documentary, and ironic activism to examine the techniques of performance across media, highlighting their shared objective of bypassing standard media outlets and the highly choreographed nature of current political debate.

Author : Matt Fotis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429807299

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Satire & The State by Matt Fotis Pdf

Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president and themselves. Numerous sketch comedy portrayals of presidents that have seeped into the American consciousness – Chevy Chase’s Gerald Ford, Dana Carvey’s George H.W. Bush, and Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush all worked to shape the actual politician’s public persona. The book analyzes these sketches and many others, illustrating how comedy is at the heart of the health and function of American democracy. At its best, satire aimed at the presidency can work as a populist check on executive power, becoming one of the most important weapons for everyday Americans against tyranny and political corruption. At its worst, satire can reflect and promote racism, misogyny, and homophobia in America. Written for students of Theatre, Performance, Political Science, and Media Studies courses, as well as readers with an interest in political comedy, Satire & The State offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between comedy and the presidency, and the ways in which satire becomes a window into the culture, principles, and beliefs of a country.

Author : Robert Karl Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163784763

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The power of satire by Robert Karl Elliott Pdf