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In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little has been paid to the 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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Other performing arts

• Full title: Standing Up, Speaking Out
• Author: Matthew R. Meier
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• EAN: 9781138100299
• ISBN: 9781138100299
• ID: 10056120
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 228 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. October 2016

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