@article{351531,
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      author = {Lerner, Ralph.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351531},
      title = {Playing the fool subversive laughter in troubled times /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Chicago Press,},
      abstract = {The role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to  question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a  beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their  audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly,  often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers  and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's  approach, and here Ralph Lerner turns to six of  them--Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Pierre  Bayle, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Gibbon--to elucidate  the strategies these men employed to persuade the heedless,  the zealous, and the overly confident to pause.},
      recid = {351531},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 134 p.)},
      address = {Chicago :},
      year = {2009},
}