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The Power of Satire
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.
[Topics in Humor Research, 2] 2015. xiii, 277 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 9 October 2015
Published online on 9 October 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
- About the contributors | pp. ix–xiv
- IntroductionMarijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw | pp. 1–16
- Mapping the Field
- Satire and dignityGiselinde Kuipers | pp. 19–32
- The Authenticity of Play: Satiric Television's Challenge to Authorative DiscoursesJeffrey P. Jones | pp. 33–46
- Cultural Flow: Intermedial Satire in Moroccan and Tunisian Rap VideosMohamed Mifdal | pp. 47–58
- Space
- Reshaping the Border Zone. An Approach to Satirical SpaceSonja de Leeuw | pp. 61–70
- Mediating satire: Italian Adaptation and Dubbing of US SitcomsLuca Barra | pp. 71–80
- Arab Sitcom Animations as Platforms for SatireOmar Adam Sayfo | pp. 81–90
- Target
- Contesting Political Boundaries in Contemporary Moroccan SatireAbdelghani el Khairat | pp. 95–104
- How to Burlesque a Burlesquer: Paul Sandby's A New Dunciad against William HogarthKathryn Desplanque | pp. 105–134
- Who is the ape, who the human? Reize door het Aapenland (1788) and Die Affenkönige oder die Reformation des Affenlandes (1789) consideredPeter Altena | pp. 135–146
- Rhetoric
- Looking backward. The rhetoric of the back in visual satireFrans Grijzenhout | pp. 147–174
- "A bull is a ludicrous jest": fable and the satiric bite in Arbuthnot's John Bull pamphletsJo Poppleton | pp. 175–184
- Bas Jan Ader's Ludic Conceptualism: Performing a Transnational IdentityJanna Schoenberger | pp. 185–196
- Media
- Absolutely Fabulous: Satire, the Body, and the Female GrotesqueKiene Brillenburg Wurth | pp. 197–206
- TV Satire and its Targets: Have I got News for You, The Thick of It and Brass EyeLaura Basu | pp. 207–216
- Enlightenment Subverted: Parody as Social Criticism in Pieter van Woensel's LantaarnIvo Nieuwenhuis | pp. 217–234
- Time
- On the power of Money and the King of Spain's son-in- law: Spanish Golden Age satire models on the internetYolanda Rodríguez Pérez | pp. 235–246
- Who are the Frogs? The Transmigration of a Symbol of NationalityDavid Bindman | pp. 247–258
- Hydropathe Caricature: Satirical Portraits in France's Early Third RepublicAlex Trott | pp. 259–268
- ConclusionsSonja de Leeuw and Marijke Meijer Drees | pp. 269–274
- Index | pp. 275–277
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