The Power of Satire

Satire is clearly one of today’s most controversial socio-cultural topics. In this edited volume, The Power of Satire , it is studied for the first time as a dynamic, discursive mode of performance with the power of crossing and contesting cultural boundaries. The collected essays reflect the fundamental shift from literary satire or straightforward literary rhetoric with a relatively limited societal impact, to satire’s multi-mediality in the transnational public space where it can cause interc