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... Pantagruel and who represents water , says : " I fly over the seas , more sprightly than a bird of prey . " During his flights he becomes saturated with sea salt and is therefore related to the substance that causes thirst . In this ...
... Pantagruel and who represents water , says : " I fly over the seas , more sprightly than a bird of prey . " During his flights he becomes saturated with sea salt and is therefore related to the substance that causes thirst . In this ...
Page 337
... Pantagruel's single combat with Werewolf . This is an interplay of similar images . Werewolf ad- vanced with gaping jaws ( la gueule ouverte ) , and Pantagruel poured over his enemy some eighteen casks and one tub of salt which stuffed ...
... Pantagruel's single combat with Werewolf . This is an interplay of similar images . Werewolf ad- vanced with gaping jaws ( la gueule ouverte ) , and Pantagruel poured over his enemy some eighteen casks and one tub of salt which stuffed ...
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... Pantagruel's sickness and recovery . He had stomach trouble , and during his sickness his abundant urine formed hot springs , of therapeutic value , in various parts of France and Italy . Here , once more , Pantagruel symbolizes a gay ...
... Pantagruel's sickness and recovery . He had stomach trouble , and during his sickness his abundant urine formed hot springs , of therapeutic value , in various parts of France and Italy . Here , once more , Pantagruel symbolizes a gay ...
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