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Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0826266274 9780826266279 9780826218025 0826218024 Year: 2008 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"A fresh perspective on the early years of Samuel Clemens's career as a writer and newspaper reporter. Caron examines Clemens's developing comic voice in his journalism in Nevada and San Francisco, then in the travel letters from Hawaii and letters chronicling his trip from California to New York City"--Provided by publisher.


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Satire as the comic public sphere : postmodern "truthiness" and civic engagement
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ISBN: 0271089865 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form. Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere.With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.


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Satire as the comic public sphere
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ISBN: 9780271090351 9780271090337 0271090332 0271090359 9780271089867 0271089865 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania

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Refocusing Chaplin : a screen icon through critical lenses
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ISBN: 9780810892255 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc.,

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