The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content /

Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / Joe B. Fulton. - 1 online resource (280 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"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.

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Twain, Mark, (1835-1910) --Religion.
Twain, Mark, (1835-1910) --Critique et interpretation.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation.


Religion et litterature.
Theology in literature.
Religion and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Theologie dans la litterature.
Religion et litterature.
Theology in literature.
Religion and literature.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.