Parody and Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberalism

by Michael Lucas

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433162664
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	11/04/2019
Edition description:	New
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

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.

Table 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.

Editorial Reviews

«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)

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