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  2. Franz Bibfeldt - Wikipedia

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    Clausen's classmate, Martin Marty, adopted the name for continued satire and Bibfeldt became a running joke for Martin and his friends. His birthdate and baptismal day was set as November 1, 1897. In 1951, Marty's review of Bibfeldt's The Relieved Paradox was published in the Concordia Seminarian.

  3. Augustan prose - Wikipedia

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    The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived in the age, and the English novel was truly begun as a serious art form. At the outset of the Augustan age, essays were still primarily imitative, novels were few and still dominated by the Romance, and prose was a rarely used format for satire, but, by the end of the period ...

  4. Paradox (literature) - Wikipedia

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    In literature, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as a method of literary composition and analysis that involves examining apparently contradictory statements and drawing conclusions either to reconcile them or to explain their presence.

  5. Augustan literature - Wikipedia

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    The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived in the age, ... Mandeville's work is full of paradox and is meant, at least partially, to ...

  6. Revisionist History (podcast) - Wikipedia

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    Revisionist History is a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell produced by Gladwell's company Pushkin Industries.It first aired on June 3, 2016 and (as of December 2024) has aired twelve seasons.

  7. John Donne - Wikipedia

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    His third satire, however, deals with the problem of true religion, a matter of great importance to Donne. He argued that it was better to examine carefully one's religious convictions than blindly to follow any established tradition, for none would be saved at the Final Judgment , by claiming "A Harry, or a Martin taught [them] this."

  8. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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    The paradox depends upon the fact that "the number of days in all time is no greater than the number of years". Karl Popper , in contrast, came to the conclusion that Tristram Shandy—by writing his history of life—would never be able to finish this story, because his last act of writing: that he is writing his history of life could never be ...

  9. A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind - Wikipedia

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    It is based to some extent on Boileau's version of Juvenal's eighth or fifteenth satire, and is also indebted to Hobbes, Montaigne, Lucretius and Epicurus, as well as the general libertine tradition. [3] Confusion has arisen in its interpretation as it is ambiguous as to whether the speaker is Rochester himself or a satirised persona. [4]