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Page 168
Billingsgate abuse is here combined with elements of scholarly humanism and
with a parody of Plato ' s Symposium . But the language of the marketplace and
its intonations of praise - abuse still retain the leading role . They acquire ,
however ...
Billingsgate abuse is here combined with elements of scholarly humanism and
with a parody of Plato ' s Symposium . But the language of the marketplace and
its intonations of praise - abuse still retain the leading role . They acquire ,
however ...
Page 248
The combination of killing and birth is characteristic of the grotesque concept of
the body and bodily life . ... Thus fire is combined with the threat of death , but the
louder the cry , the more does the threat lose its direct threatening meaning .
The combination of killing and birth is characteristic of the grotesque concept of
the body and bodily life . ... Thus fire is combined with the threat of death , but the
louder the cry , the more does the threat lose its direct threatening meaning .
Page 249
The combination of sia ammazzato with joyful intonation , with friendly , caressing
greetings , with compliments and praise , is completely equivalent to the
combination of killing and the act of birth in the previously mentioned side - street
...
The combination of sia ammazzato with joyful intonation , with friendly , caressing
greetings , with compliments and praise , is completely equivalent to the
combination of killing and the act of birth in the previously mentioned side - street
...
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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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