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joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple forms” as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative

A final section reconsiders the language of class in American history and offers fresh perspectives on racism and the representation of white working-class experience

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Rethinking the French Revolution keyword-zaha-hadid joke: André Jolles understands eachHistorians generallyand Marxists in particularhave presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent revisionist accounts, however, have raised convincing arguments against the idea of the bourgeois class revolution, and the model on which it is based. In this provocative study, George Comninel surveys