PLAYING THE FOOL |
Subtitle:
Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times
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Book Category:
Humor > General
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Author:
Lerner, Ralph
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780226473154?
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Price:
USD 32.50
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Publication Year:
2009
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Publisher Info
Carol Kasper,
University of Chicago Press,1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago ,
Illinois - 60637,USA
Web: www.press.uchicago.edu Inquiry
Book Description
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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