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Page 236
Like all humanists , Rabelais was familiar with the ancient conception of games
which held them to be far better than ordinary idle pastimes . Therefore ,
Ponocrates did not exclude them from young Gargantua ' s education . On rainy
days they ...
Like all humanists , Rabelais was familiar with the ancient conception of games
which held them to be far better than ordinary idle pastimes . Therefore ,
Ponocrates did not exclude them from young Gargantua ' s education . On rainy
days they ...
Page 249
The festival of fire revives the ancient ambivalence of the death wish , which also
sounds like a wish for renewal and rebirth : die , and live again . This ancient
ambivalence is not a dead remnant of the past ; it is alive and finds a subjective ...
The festival of fire revives the ancient ambivalence of the death wish , which also
sounds like a wish for renewal and rebirth : die , and live again . This ancient
ambivalence is not a dead remnant of the past ; it is alive and finds a subjective ...
Page 433
The ancient dual tone of speech is the stylistic reflection of the ancient dual -
bodied image . As the ancient image disintegrated , an 27 Goethe gives an
interesting picture of the dual body in its serious philosophic aspect in his poem :
“ The ...
The ancient dual tone of speech is the stylistic reflection of the ancient dual -
bodied image . As the ancient image disintegrated , an 27 Goethe gives an
interesting picture of the dual body in its serious philosophic aspect in his poem :
“ The ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
und TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World Volume 177 of M.I.T.: Literary criticism Volume 177 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass: MIT paperback series |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Publisher | M.I.T. Press, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0262055031, 9780262055031 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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