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Author Declercq, Dieter, author.

Title Satire, Comedy and Mental Health : Coping with the Limits of Critique / Dieter Declercq.

Publication Info. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Emerald Points Ser.
Emerald Points Ser.
Contents Chapter 1. What is satire?; Chapter 2. Satire as therapy: curing a sick world?; Chapter 3. Satire as therapy revisited: coping with a sick world; Chapter 4. The solace of entertainment; Chapter 5. Comic irony and narrative coping.
Summary Satire, Comedy and Mental Health examines how satire helps to sustain good mental health in a troubled socio-political world. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue that combines approaches from the analytic philosophy of art, medical and health humanities, media studies, and psychology, the book demonstrates how satire enables us to negotiate a healthy balance between care for others and care of self. Building on a thorough philosophical explication and close analysis of satire in various forms - including novels, music, TV, film, cartoons, memes, stand-up comedy and protest artefacts - Declercq investigates how we can harness satirical entertainment to ease the limits of critique. In so doing, the book presents a compelling case that, while satire cannot hope to cure our sick world, it can certainly help us to cope with it.
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Subject Mental health.
Mental health.
Satire -- Therapeutic use.
Satire.
Genre/Form Satire.
Subject Comedy -- Social aspects.
mental health.
Comedy -- Social aspects.
Psychiatry.
Comedy.
Health & Fitness/ Mental Health.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 1839096675 9781839096679 (OCoLC)1191240852
ISBN 9781839096662 (electronic book)
1839096667 (electronic book)
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1839096675
9781839096679