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... feast looked back at the past and used the past to conse- crate the present . Unlike the earlier and purer feast , the official feast asserted all that was stable , unchanging , perennial : the exist- ing hierarchy , the existing ...
... feast looked back at the past and used the past to conse- crate the present . Unlike the earlier and purer feast , the official feast asserted all that was stable , unchanging , perennial : the exist- ing hierarchy , the existing ...
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... feasts with " gay time . " Whenever the free popular aspect of the feast is preserved , 16 Actually , every feast day crowns and uncrowns , and has therefore its own king and queen . See this theme in the Decameron , where a king and ...
... feasts with " gay time . " Whenever the free popular aspect of the feast is preserved , 16 Actually , every feast day crowns and uncrowns , and has therefore its own king and queen . See this theme in the Decameron , where a king and ...
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... feast is a primary , in- destructible ingredient of human civilization ; it may become sterile and even degenerate , but it cannot vanish . The private , " chamber " feast of the bourgeois period still preserves a distorted aspect of ...
... feast is a primary , in- destructible ingredient of human civilization ; it may become sterile and even degenerate , but it cannot vanish . The private , " chamber " feast of the bourgeois period still preserves a distorted aspect of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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