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... contains many special terms referring to different branches of knowledge and technology . Finally , it contains a great number of new and difficult words which Rabelais was the first to introduce into the French language . It is obvious ...
... contains many special terms referring to different branches of knowledge and technology . Finally , it contains a great number of new and difficult words which Rabelais was the first to introduce into the French language . It is obvious ...
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... contains a number of observations which were valuable and new for that time , concerning the epoch when the novel was written as well as the various aspects of Ra- belais ' work . Some of these observations were accepted ; but from our ...
... contains a number of observations which were valuable and new for that time , concerning the epoch when the novel was written as well as the various aspects of Ra- belais ' work . Some of these observations were accepted ; but from our ...
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... contain this story , but a farce of 1540 alludes to the episode as to something commonly known . One of the new oral variants of the legend , recorded by Sébillot , 8 also contains this incident . The heroes of folk humor often descend ...
... contain this story , but a farce of 1540 alludes to the episode as to something commonly known . One of the new oral variants of the legend , recorded by Sébillot , 8 also contains this incident . The heroes of folk humor often descend ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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