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portada Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
224
Encuadernación
Tapa Dura
Dimensiones
23.4 x 15.7 x 2.0 cm
Peso
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9781421419343

Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic (en Inglés)

Angus Fletcher (Autor) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Tapa Dura

Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic (en Inglés) - Fletcher, Angus

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Reseña del libro "Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic (en Inglés)"

The forgotten history of comedy's contribution to world democracy.For two thousand years, democratic authors treated comedy as a toolkit of rhetorical practices for encouraging problem-solving, pluralism, risk-taking, and other civic behaviors that increased minority participation in government. Over the past two centuries, this pragmatic approach to extending the franchise has gradually been displaced by more idealistic democratic philosophies that focus instead on promoting liberal principles and human rights. But in the wake of the recent "democracy recession" in the Middle East, the Third World, and the West itself, there has been renewed interest in finding practical sources of popular rule. Comic Democracies joins in the search by exploring the value of the old comic tools for growing democracy today.Drawing on new empirical research from the political and cognitive sciences, Angus Fletcher deftly analyzes the narrative elements of two dozen stage plays, novels, romances, histories, and operas written by such authors as Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, William Congreve, John Gay, Henry Fielding, and Washington Irving. He unearths five comic techniques that were used to foster democratic behaviors in antiquity and the Renaissance, then traces the role of these techniques in Tom Paine's Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson's preamble to the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's farewell address, Mercy Otis Warren's federalist history of the Revolution, Frederick Douglass's abolitionist orations, and other key documents that played a pivotal role in the development of the early American Republic.After recovering these lost chapters of our democratic past, Comic Democracies concludes with a draft for the future, using the old methods of comedy to envision a modern democracy rooted in the diversity, ingenuity, and power of popular art.

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