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... expressed its attitude toward laughter in the very practice of literary creation and appreciation . Neither was there any lack of theoretical opinion that justified laughter as a universal , philosophical form . This theory of laughter ...
... expressed its attitude toward laughter in the very practice of literary creation and appreciation . Neither was there any lack of theoretical opinion that justified laughter as a universal , philosophical form . This theory of laughter ...
Page 111
... expressed in his biography the follow- ing opinion concerning Rabelais : He wrote a remarkable book in which , with a quasi - Democrit- ean freedom and with an almost clownish biting irony and under imaginary names he recreated as in a ...
... expressed in his biography the follow- ing opinion concerning Rabelais : He wrote a remarkable book in which , with a quasi - Democrit- ean freedom and with an almost clownish biting irony and under imaginary names he recreated as in a ...
Page 353
... expressed grotesque bodily character . Even to- day this character has been most fully preserved in marketplace ... expression is the primeval phenomenon of popular humor , the cartwheel , which by the con- tinual rotation of the upper ...
... expressed grotesque bodily character . Even to- day this character has been most fully preserved in marketplace ... expression is the primeval phenomenon of popular humor , the cartwheel , which by the con- tinual rotation of the upper ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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