The Power of Satire
Published on 22. October 2015
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-90-272-0229-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0229-1 (9789027202291)
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Marijke Meijer Drees | Sonja de Leeuw
The Power of Satire
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10/2015
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Content
1. Acknowledgments; 2. About the contributors; 3. Introduction (by Meijer Drees, Marijke); 4. Mapping the Field; 5. Satire and dignity (by Kuipers, Giselinde); 6. The Authenticity of Play: Satiric Television's Challenge to Authorative Discourses (by Jones, Jeffrey P.); 7. Cultural Flow: Intermedial Satire in Moroccan and Tunisian Rap Videos (by Mifdal, Mohamed); 8. Space; 9. Reshaping the Border Zone. An Approach to Satirical Space (by de Leeuw, Sonja); 10. Mediating satire: Italian Adaptation and Dubbing of US Sitcoms (by Barra, Luca); 11. Arab Sitcom Animations as Platforms for Satire (by Sayfo, Omar Adam); 12. Target; 13. Contesting Political Boundaries in Contemporary Moroccan Satire (by el Khairat, Abdelghani); 14. How to Burlesque a Burlesquer: Paul Sandby's A New Dunciad against William Hogarth (by Desplanque, Kathryn); 15. Who is the ape, who the human? Reize door het Aapenland (1788) and Die Affenkonige oder die Reformation des Affenlandes (1789) considered (by Altena, Peter); 16. Rhetoric; 17. Looking backward. The rhetoric of the back in visual satire (by Grijzenhout, Frans); 18. "A bull is a ludicrous jest": fable and the satiric bite in Arbuthnot's John Bull pamphlets (by Poppleton, Jo); 19. Bas Jan Ader's Ludic Conceptualism: Performing a Transnational Identity (by Schoenberger, Janna); 20. Media; 21. Absolutely Fabulous: Satire, the Body, and the Female Grotesque (by Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene); 22. TV Satire and its Targets: Have I got News for You, The Thick of It and Brass Eye (by Basu, Laura); 23. Enlightenment Subverted: Parody as Social Criticism in Pieter van Woensel's Lantaarn (by Nieuwenhuis, Ivo); 24. Time; 25. On the power of Money and the King of Spain's son-in- law: Spanish Golden Age satire models on the internet (by Rodriguez Perez, Yolanda); 26. Who are the Frogs? The Transmigration of a Symbol of Nationality (by Bindman, David); 27. Hydropathe Caricature: Satirical Portraits in France's Early Third Republic (by Trott, Alex); 28. Conclusions (by de Leeuw, Sonja); 29. Index