Self-Referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature

Few studies have addressed comprehensively the place of jesting in early modern pulpit rhetoric. This article documents some of the humour-jests and witty speech-in the period's extant sermon literature. Specifically it identifies the analytical potential of revisiting an ancient, and early mod...

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Main Author: Derrin, Daniel 1980- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 255-269
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
RE Homiletics
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