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Standing Up, Speaking Out : Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change by Matthew R. Meier, Casey R. Schmitt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Standing Up, Speaking Out : Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change about?

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.

Who reads Standing Up, Speaking Out : Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change?

Author

Matthew R. Meier, Casey R. Schmitt

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Groupc 2017

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317328940

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Engineering