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PLAYING THE FOOL
PLAYING THE FOOL
Subtitle:
Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times
Book Category:
Humor > General
Author:
Lerner, Ralph
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780226473154?
Price:
USD 32.50
Publication Year:
2009

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University of Chicago Press.

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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.

 

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