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This is the essential difference in the appreciation of Rabelais ' writings in the
sixteenth century and in the years that followed . Contemporaries understood this
one grand style , while men of the next two centuries began to consider it as
some ...
This is the essential difference in the appreciation of Rabelais ' writings in the
sixteenth century and in the years that followed . Contemporaries understood this
one grand style , while men of the next two centuries began to consider it as
some ...
Page 219
Many of these popular - festive forms that had lent some of their essential
elements to carnival continued to lead contemporaneously their own pallid
existence . This was , for instance , the case of the French charivari ; its main traits
had been ...
Many of these popular - festive forms that had lent some of their essential
elements to carnival continued to lead contemporaneously their own pallid
existence . This was , for instance , the case of the French charivari ; its main traits
had been ...
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nearly all that is essential in this phenomenon . The fact that his description refers
to the carnival of 1788 , a comparatively late event , is of no importance in this
case . The central philosophy of the carnival system was preserved long after ...
nearly all that is essential in this phenomenon . The fact that his description refers
to the carnival of 1788 , a comparatively late event , is of no importance in this
case . The central philosophy of the carnival system was preserved long after ...
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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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