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Parody and Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberalism provides comic relief in a neoliberal era and argues that parody can be used to creatively benefit our practices of self-narration and quests for knowledge. This seriously playful book demonstrates how parody utilizes humor, play, and self-reflection to allow for a helpful alternative relationship to mistakes and our multifaceted self. The book works to delineate specific ways of viewing, studying, creating, and performing a particular form of humorous parody, and through pedagogical application, it balances practical hands-on examples via digital video creation with examples and exercises such as interrogating our creative histories and parodying them-either as a classroom exercise or in individual self-reflection. The core readership for this book is rhetoric and composition scholars researching continental philosophy, humor, and narrative theory, and it lends itself to classroom implementation for professors, as it brings together (often for the first time) major academic conversations on humor throughout philosophy, literary and cultural studies, communication studies, and media studies. Parody and Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberalism is essential reading for undergraduate/graduate courses that feature humor, alternative forms of communication in the public sphere, alternative rhetorical strategies, and courses that focus on the importance of creativity and play in our daily lives and scholarship.
List of contents
Informal Introductions - Defining Humorous Parody - Narrating Our-Selves - Parody Functioning as a Mass Narrative Therapy in Contemporary Visual Entertainment - Creative Atmospheres of Play Enabled by Paraumhordyor - Parody as a Critical Public/Classroom Pedagogy - Index.
About the author
With a PhD in rhetoric from Clemson University, Michael Richard Lucas is a "freelance educator." His research draws from teaching undergraduate courses, as well as presenting scholarship at international conferences. His literary fiction, Lost Fragments of Plausible Unimportance: Pointless Guidelines for the Hopeless, and other works reside at MichaelArtsGood.com.
Summary
Parody and Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberalism provides comic relief in a neoliberal era and argues that parody can be used to creatively benefit our practices of self-narration and quests for knowledge.
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«I read most of the book back to front and sideways in a few hours! I couldn't give you a better compliment, except if I threw it in the bin (or Duchamp's urinal perhaps) without reading.» (John Vignaux Smyth, Professor of English Literature, Portland State University)
