Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change - 9781138100282

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. "

• | Author: Casey R. Schmitt, Matthew R. Meier
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138100285
• | ISBN-13: 9781138100282