COMIC MONOLOGUE. RHETORIC AND POETICS OF STAND-UP COMEDY. TRANSFERENCES AND STAGE

More than two decades after its arrival in Spain, stand-up comedy has become an established cultural phenomenon, occupying significant spaces on stage, radio, and television, both analog and digital. The persuasive pursuit of audience laughter through a complex discourse, endowed with multiple expressive resources, and the invention of stories capable of conveying serious content present us with a genre that straddles the rhetorical and the literary. The essays in this volume aim to contribute new perspectives to the study of stand-up comedy from literary theory and linguistics, focusing on aspects that transcend the mechanisms of the joke and writing strategies: its development in Spain, its connection with cultural tradition, its particular generic features, its communicative nature, the figure of the comedian and his social function, the stage treatment, the motifs that inform the texts, and the subversive and vindictive nature of some prominent authors.