Playing the Fool : Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times /

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lerner, Ralph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Fools and jesters > Political aspects.
Laughter > Political aspects.
Political satire > History and criticism.
Political science > Language.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
laughter, laughing, humor, comedy, comics, social thought, society, subversive, subversiveness, fool, foolishness, sensitive topics, thomas more, francis bacon, robert burton, pierre bayle, benjamin franklin, edward gibbon, reconsideration, thoughtfulness, engagement, fanaticism, religion, nation state, skepticism, tyranny, censorship, political satire, politics, history, historical context, criticism, human rights.
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