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Bostdorff, Denise M. "Making light of James Watt: A Burkean approach to the form and attitude of political cartoons." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73. (1987): 43–59. Added by: joachim (9/1/16, 2:32 PM) Last edited by: joachim (9/1/16, 2:37 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/00335638709383793 BibTeX citation key: Bostdorff1987 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Caricature, Irony, Metaphor, Randformen des Comics Creators: Bostdorff Collection: Quarterly Journal of Speech |
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This essay demonstrates the applicability of Brukean concepts to political cartoons. More specifically, it examines a sample of eighty-three James Watt cartoons and explains: (a) the formal strategy of perspective by incongruity employed in political cartoons; (b) the attitude of rejection or burlesque typically exemplified by the art form; and (c) the fusion of form and attitude in the tropes of metaphor, irony, synecdoche, and metonymy, which serve as organizing principles to guide audience readings of cartoons.
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