Playing the fool : subversive laughter in troubled times /

Playing the fool : subversive laughter in troubled times /

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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...

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Main Author: Lerner, Ralph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009
Chicago : [2009]
Subjects:
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626 > Language
Bayle, Pierre, > 1647-1706 > Language
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640 > Language
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790 > Language
Gibbon, Edward, > 1737-1794 > Language
More, Thomas, > Saint, > 1478-1535 > Language
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626
Bayle, Pierre, > 1647-1706
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790
Gibbon, Edward, > 1737-1794
More, Thomas, > Saint, > 1478-1535
Fools and jesters > Political aspects
Laughter > Political aspects
Political satire > History and criticism
Political science > Language
Fous et bouffons > Aspect politique
Rire > Aspect politique
Satire politique > Histoire et critique
Fools and jesters
LITERARY CRITICISM > General
Language and languages
Laughter
Political satire
Political science
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Dictionaries

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