Standing Up, Speaking Out
Author | : Matthew R. Meier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016-10-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317328933 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317328930 |
Rating | : 4/5 (930 Downloads) |
Download or read book Standing Up, Speaking Out written by Matthew R. Meier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.