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