Author: John AshtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337474430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century
Author: John AshtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337474430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Satire as the Comic Public Sphere
Author: James E. CaronPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271090332
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form. Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere. With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.
Laughing at Architecture
Author: Michela RossoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350022764
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning architectural and urban culture. Whether illuminating the ambivalences of metropolitan life or exposing the shock of modernisation, cartoons, caricature, and parody have long been potent agents of architectural criticism, protest and opposition. In a novel contribution to the field of architectural history, this book outlines a survey of visual and textual humour as applied to architecture, its artefacts and leading professionals. Employing a wide variety of visual and literary sources (prints, the illustrated press, advertisements, theatrical representations, cinema and TV), thirteen essays explore an array of historical subjects concerning the critical reception of projects, buildings and cities through the means of caricature and parody. Subjects range from 1750 to the present, and from Europe and the USA to contemporary China. From William Hogarth and George Cruikshank to Osbert Lancaster, Adolf Loos' satire, and Saul Steinberg's celebrated cartoons of New York City, graphic and descriptive humour is shown to be an enormously fruitful, yet largely unexplored terrain of investigation for the architectural and urban historian.
Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century
Author: John AshtonColonial facts and fictions, humorous sketches, by Mark Kershaw
Author: John MilneThe Westminster Review
Author: A Plaster Saint
Author: Annie EdwardsRosamund, Queen of the Lombards
Author: Algernon Charles SwinburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Records of Vincent Trill of the Detective Service
Author: Dick DonovanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trill, Vincent (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards
Author: Percy FitzgeraldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description