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Author:
Benacka, Elizabeth, author.
Title:
Rhetoric, humor, and the public sphere : from Socrates to Stephen Colbert / Elizabeth Benacka.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
ix, 165 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Political satire, American.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Colbert, Stephen,--1964-
United States--Politics and government--Humor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Wisdom from the ancients : the rhetorical history of humor -- Damn Yankees : the history and practice of humor in the United States -- Correspondents and Colbert : address at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner -- Congress and Colbert : testimony on "protecting our nation's harvest" in 2010 before the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security -- Citizens United and Colbert : the satirical super PAC, "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" -- Citizen Colbert : humor as rhetorical education in the public sphere.
ISBN:
1498519865
9781498519861
OCLC:
(OCoLC)958779097
LCCN:
2016041263
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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