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Comedy and Controversy

Scripting Public Speech

Sarah Balkin author Marc Mierowsky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Publishing:31st Jan '25

£17.00

This title is due to be published on 31st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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This Element discusses epistemic, pragmatic, and historical perspectives on experimental control in the life sciences.

This Element discusses general features of controlled experimentation, epistemic and practical aspects, and historical perspectives. It argues that controlled experimentation has a material-technical and a conceptual side. It shifts the focus from control experiments to controlling for the epistemologically fundamental issue in experimentation.This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters – or is pushed – into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and media rhetoric rather than the traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These controversies raise a larger set of questions about the comedian's public role. They draw attention to the intention of jokes and their effects in the world. And they force us to consider how the limits of comic performance – what can be said, by whom, and why – respond to, and can reshape, public discourse across changing media contexts.

ISBN: 9781009396806

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

75 pages