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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475007593 Title: Playing the fool : subversive laughter in troubled times Author: Ralph Lerner Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780226473178 0226473171 OCLC:475007593

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Playing the fool : subversive laughter in troubled times

Author:	Ralph Lerner
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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, Read more...
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Subjects	More, Thomas, -- Saint, -- 1478-1535 -- Language. Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626 -- Language. Burton, Robert, -- 1577-1640 -- Language. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Lerner, Ralph. Playing the fool. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008051926 (OCoLC)281091955
Named Person:	Thomas More, Saint; Francis Bacon; Robert Burton; Pierre Bayle; Benjamin Franklin; Edward Gibbon; Francis Bacon; Pierre Bayle; Robert Burton; Benjamin Franklin; Edward Gibbon; Thomas More, Saint
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
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ISBN:	9780226473178 0226473171
OCLC Number:	475007593
Description:	1 online resource (134 pages)
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.
Responsibility:	Ralph Lerner.

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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 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 confident to pause.

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