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Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic
Angus Fletcher
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Description for Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS; DSA; HBJK; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419343
SKU
V9781421419343
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About Angus Fletcher
Angus Fletcher is a professor of English and a core member of Project Narrative at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection.
Reviews for Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic
Fletcher's main theory is convincing and will open up new fields of inquiry. This accessible work is for those interested in political science, cultural history, and comic theory as well as classical literature.
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Fletcher is to be commended for his ability to bring together such a diverse range of texts and ideas. Although readers are unlikely to ... Read more
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Fletcher is to be commended for his ability to bring together such a diverse range of texts and ideas. Although readers are unlikely to ... Read more