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The Reverend Mark Twain : theological burlesque, form, and content

Print Book, English, ©2006
Ohio State University Press, Columbus, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 228 pages ; 24 cm
9780814210246, 9780814291016, 0814210244, 0814291015
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"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue
"Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it
Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ
The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc
Q: What do Socrates and the Shorter catechism have in common? A: Dialogic influences on Mark Twain's What is man?
"Prophecy went out with the chicken guts" : No. 44, The mysterious stranger, and the Christian prophetic tradition