Jillian Belanger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4002590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jillian Belanger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Belanger |
| SIGNATURE | BÉLANGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Speaking Truth to Power
Stand-up comedians are rhetors who use humor as a rhetorical tool to inform and persuade mass audiences in the classical rhetorical tradition. In this dissertation, I work to recover the rhetorical motives of stand-up comedy, just as rhetoric and composition scholars before me have reread and recovered the legacy of the Sophists. To that end, I align stand-up comedians first with the historical heritage of Sophists and jesters, and then with the …
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Speaking Truth to Power
Stand-up comedians are rhetors who use humor as a rhetorical tool to inform and persuade mass audiences in the classical rhetorical tradition. In this dissertation, I work to recover the rhetorical motives of stand-up comedy, just as rhetoric and composition scholars before me have reread and recovered the legacy of the Sophists. To that end, I align stand-up comedians first with the historical heritage of Sophists and jesters, and then with the …
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Comedy (1 work) · Humor Studies and Applications (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Media Influence and Health (1 work) · Media studies (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Rhetoric (1 work)