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Daniel Boyarin
Preface : The cheese and the sermons: toward a microhistory of ideas -- In praise of indecorous acts of discourse: an essay by way of introduction -- "Confound laughter with seriousness": the Protagoras as monological dialogue -- "Confound seriousness with laughter": on monological and dialogical -- Reading "The Gorgias" -- Jesting words and dreadful lessons: the two voices of the Babylonian Talmud -- "Read Lucian!": Menippean satire and the literary world of the Babylonian Talmud -- Icaromeir: Rabbi Meir's Babylonian "Life" as Menippean satire -- "The truest tragedy": the Symposium as monologue -- A crude contradiction; or, The second accent of the Symposium -- Appendix: On the postmodern allegorical