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Page 106
... festive theme and images can be found in a somewhat different aspect in the works of the libertine poets : Saint - Amant , Théophile Viau , d'Assouci . These works preserve the philosophical meaning of the images but acquire an ...
... festive theme and images can be found in a somewhat different aspect in the works of the libertine poets : Saint - Amant , Théophile Viau , d'Assouci . These works preserve the philosophical meaning of the images but acquire an ...
Page 207
... festive comic performance : it is a gay and free play , but it is also full of deep meaning . Its hero and author is time itself , which uncrowns , covers with ridicule , kills the old world ( the old authority and truth ) , and at the ...
... festive comic performance : it is a gay and free play , but it is also full of deep meaning . Its hero and author is time itself , which uncrowns , covers with ridicule , kills the old world ( the old authority and truth ) , and at the ...
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... festive element did not die . It was merely narrowed down . The 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 ...
... festive element did not die . It was merely narrowed down . The 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 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries drink earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages nature novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian regenerating Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words