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This assertion , expressed in the spirit of existentialism , presents first an
opposition of life to death . Such an opposition is completely contrary to the
system of grotesque imagery , in which death is not a negation of life seen as the
great body of ...
This assertion , expressed in the spirit of existentialism , presents first an
opposition of life to death . Such an opposition is completely contrary to the
system of grotesque imagery , in which death is not a negation of life seen as the
great body of ...
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This laughing 37 Profound thoughts concerning the functions of laughter in the
history of culture were expressed by Herzen ( though he was not acquainted with
the laughing Middle Ages ) : " laughter contains something revolutionary .
This laughing 37 Profound thoughts concerning the functions of laughter in the
history of culture were expressed by Herzen ( though he was not acquainted with
the laughing Middle Ages ) : " laughter contains something revolutionary .
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The description of a charivari of the early fourteenth century , in Roman du Fauvel
, says of its participants , “ They donned all their garments backward . " This logic
of the " wrong side out ” and of “ bottoms up ” is also expressed in gestures and ...
The description of a charivari of the early fourteenth century , in Roman du Fauvel
, says of its participants , “ They donned all their garments backward . " This logic
of the " wrong side out ” and of “ bottoms up ” is also expressed in gestures and ...
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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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