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... Middle Ages are nothing but a selection of all the degrading , earthy details taken from the Bible , the Gospels , and other sacred texts . In the comic dialogues of Solomon with Morolf which were popular in the Middle Ages , Solomon's ...
... Middle Ages are nothing but a selection of all the degrading , earthy details taken from the Bible , the Gospels , and other sacred texts . In the comic dialogues of Solomon with Morolf which were popular in the Middle Ages , Solomon's ...
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... Middle Ages and found a multiform expression in concrete sensual ele- ments of folk culture , both in ritual and spectacle . This was the second , festive life of the Middle Ages . Many figures described by Burdach as preparing the ...
... Middle Ages and found a multiform expression in concrete sensual ele- ments of folk culture , both in ritual and spectacle . This was the second , festive life of the Middle Ages . Many figures described by Burdach as preparing the ...
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... Middle Ages and in the Re- naissance . Moreover , we shall examine it not in its entirety but only within the limits permitted by the analysis of Rabelais ' work . In this respect our study can offer only a certain amount of mate- rial ...
... Middle Ages and in the Re- naissance . Moreover , we shall examine it not in its entirety but only within the limits permitted by the analysis of Rabelais ' work . In this respect our study can offer only a certain amount of mate- rial ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries drink earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages nature novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian regenerating Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words