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BL
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667780
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dltt
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Lindvall, Terry
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| Title & Author
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God mocks : : a history of religious satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert /\ Terry Lindvall
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xi, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations (chiefly color) ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781479886739 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 1479886734 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index
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| Contents
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Circumcised satirists -- Caesar salad satirists -- Satire made flesh -- Medieval jesters and roosters -- Reformers and fools -- Augustan poets and pundits -- Continental wits, rakes, and ironists -- American naifs and agnostics -- British Catholics and curmudgeons -- Entertainers and onions -- A fool's apology and Palinode
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| Abstract
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Lindvall chronicles the evolution of religious satire, from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He explains that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter, but there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage
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Satire-- History and criticism
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Religious satire-- History and criticism
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Arts and religion
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| Dewey Classification
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809.7/9382
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| LC Classification
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PN6149.S2L56 2015
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