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Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

The Reverend Mark Twain Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / [Joe B. Fulton]. - 1 online resource (228 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- Providence don't fire no blank cartridges, boys : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in 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 Twain's What is man? -- Prophecy went out with the chicken guts : No. 44, The mysterious stranger, and the christian prophetic tradition.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814272527 0814272525

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theology in literature.
Religion and literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS1338 / .F85 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 818/.409