The Reverend Mark Twain Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content - Fulton, Joe B., 1962-; Project Muse. (Ohio State University Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-219) and index.
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Keywords: Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation; Theology in literature; Religion and literature; Electronic books