The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content /
Joe B. Fulton.
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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.
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