Playing the Fool : Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times
Ralph. Lerner
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (145 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Tomfoolery in Earnest; 2 The Jihad of St. Alban; 3 Burton's Antics; 4 Remedial Education in Professor Bayle's History Class; 5 Franklin's Double Take on Rights; 6 The Smile of a Philosophic Historian; Index of Names. - The role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly, often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach, and here Ralph Lerner turns to six of them-Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Pierre Bayle, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Gibbon-to elucidate the strategies these men employed to persuade the heedless, the zealous, and the overly confid
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| Emner | Fools and jesters - Political aspects
Laughter - Political aspects Political satire - History and criticism Political science - Language Vis mer... Bacon, Francis - Language.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Language. Bayle, Pierre - Language. Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706 -- Language. Burton, Robert - Language. Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 -- Language. Franklin, Benjamin - Language. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Language. Gibbon, Edward - Language. Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 -- Language. More, Thomas - Language. More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535 -- Language. Languages & Literatures Literature - General narr hoff makt satire thomas more francis bacon robert burton pierre bayle benjamin franklin edward gibbon fanatisme religion stat fornuft underholdning politisk humor |
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| ISBN | 0226473155. - 9780226473154
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