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American journal review satire11/24/2023 Satire entails an act of judgment based on an implicit or explicit (moral) value often made with an intent to reform or change the comic butt (target) of a ridiculing presentation. Satire signifies a comic attitude and a comic tactic, and names a mode within the discourse of The Comic. if recent analyses sound a warning against conceptualizing satire as a form or as a literary genre, we still need parameters for using the word as a heuristic for understanding certain kinds of comic artifacts, so I offer a working definition. 2, Special Issue: American Satire and the Postmodern Condition (2016), 156-57. Caron, “The Quantum Paradox of Truthiness: Satire, Activism, and the Postmodern Condition.” Studies in American Humor, Vol. The Comic Offense: From Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy by Rick DesRochersĭick’s Last Stand by Richard Pryor, Donelle Woolford Dick Jokes by Donelle Woolford, E. Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)Making of Gender: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Anna Foka, Jonas Liliequist Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America by Bill Schelly The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon by Amy M. The Story of Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be! by Michael Alexander Kahn, Richard Samuel West Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians by Justin Martin The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire by Todd Nathan Thompson “To Soften the Heart”: George Saunders, Postmodern Satire, and Empathy Pious Policymaking: The Participatory Satires of Stephen Colbertīlack Women’s Satire as (Black) Postmodern PerformanceĬan I Live? Contemporary Black Satire and the State of Postmodern Double Consciousness The Quantum Paradox of Truthiness: Satire, Activism, and the Postmodern ConditionĪfter Politics/After Television: Veep, Digimodernism, and the Running Gag of Government See the entire issue on Jstor (subscription required) or join the AHSA to get the journal.
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