The Power of Satire

Editors

Marijke Meijer Drees | University of Groningen

Sonja de Leeuw | University of Utrecht

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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.

[Topics in Humor Research, 2] 2015. xiii, 277 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.2

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii

About the contributors | pp. ix–xiv

Introduction

Marijke Meijer Drees and Sonja de Leeuw | pp. 1–16

Mapping the Field

Satire and dignity

Giselinde Kuipers | pp. 19–32

The Authenticity of Play: Satiric Television's Challenge to Authorative Discourses

Jeffrey P. Jones | pp. 33–46

Cultural Flow: Intermedial Satire in Moroccan and Tunisian Rap Videos

Mohamed Mifdal | pp. 47–58

Space

Reshaping the Border Zone. An Approach to Satirical Space

Sonja de Leeuw | pp. 61–70

Mediating satire: Italian Adaptation and Dubbing of US Sitcoms

Luca Barra | pp. 71–80

Arab Sitcom Animations as Platforms for Satire

Omar Adam Sayfo | pp. 81–90

Target

Contesting Political Boundaries in Contemporary Moroccan Satire

Abdelghani el Khairat | pp. 95–104

How to Burlesque a Burlesquer: Paul Sandby's A New Dunciad against William Hogarth

Kathryn Desplanque | pp. 105–134

Who is the ape, who the human? Reize door het Aapenland (1788) and Die Affenkönige oder die Reformation des Affenlandes (1789) considered

Peter Altena | pp. 135–146

Rhetoric

Looking backward. The rhetoric of the back in visual satire

Frans Grijzenhout | pp. 147–174

"A bull is a ludicrous jest": fable and the satiric bite in Arbuthnot's John Bull pamphlets

Jo Poppleton | pp. 175–184

Bas Jan Ader's Ludic Conceptualism: Performing a Transnational Identity

Janna Schoenberger | pp. 185–196

Media

Absolutely Fabulous: Satire, the Body, and the Female Grotesque

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth | pp. 197–206

TV Satire and its Targets: Have I got News for You, The Thick of It and Brass Eye

Laura Basu | pp. 207–216

Enlightenment Subverted: Parody as Social Criticism in Pieter van Woensel's Lantaarn

Ivo Nieuwenhuis | pp. 217–234

Time

On the power of Money and the King of Spain's son-in- law: Spanish Golden Age satire models on the internet

Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez | pp. 235–246

Who are the Frogs? The Transmigration of a Symbol of Nationality

David Bindman | pp. 247–258

Hydropathe Caricature: Satirical Portraits in France's Early Third Republic

Alex Trott | pp. 259–268

Conclusions

Sonja de Leeuw and Marijke Meijer Drees | pp. 269–274

Index | pp. 275–277

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