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Laughter Shared or the Games Poets Play: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Irony in Postwar American Poetry

Summers, Stephen (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

During and after the First World War, English-language poets employed various ironic techniques to address war's dark absurdities. These methods, I argue, have various degrees of efficacy, depending upon the ethics of the ...
What's So Funny?: An Examination of Late-Night Satire

Bower, Chris Huntley (University of Oregon, 2019)

In this era of “Peak TV," our discussions of television are often focused on the next hit show, which writer crafted the tightest script or which actor most fully inhabited a particular character. While these types of ...
Writing the Strike: How Writers Won the 2007-8 Writers Strike and Changed TV

Claiborn, Caroline (University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)

I argue that television entertainment writers, their cultural status, and rhetorical skills are critical to national discourse and media structures. Focusing on the 2007-8 writers strike, the project analyzes videos that ...