The Power of Satire (Topics in Humor Research)

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902720229X
• ISBN13: 9789027202291
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 6.8"