Description:
Examines the work of satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form.
Brief description: James E. Caron is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He is the author of Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter and coeditor of Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon Through Critical Lenses and Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris.
Review Quotes:
"Any scholar or student interested in the roles of comic and satiric discourse in twenty-first-century culture will benefit from reading this book. In my own engagements with satire, I will turn to this book first as an authoritative sorting-out of where we are and where we are going."
--Bruce Michelson, author of Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self