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... grotesque imagery attained its flowering and renewal ; it embraced nearly all areas of art and literature . Under the influence of the art of Eastern peoples a new kind of grotesque was formed , but aesthetic and artistic thought ...
... grotesque imagery attained its flowering and renewal ; it embraced nearly all areas of art and literature . Under the influence of the art of Eastern peoples a new kind of grotesque was formed , but aesthetic and artistic thought ...
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... grotesque a purely satirical function . Our analysis of this Romantic phase is , of course , far from com- plete . Moreover it bears a rather one - sided and even polemical character , since all we are looking for here is the difference ...
... grotesque a purely satirical function . Our analysis of this Romantic phase is , of course , far from com- plete . Moreover it bears a rather one - sided and even polemical character , since all we are looking for here is the difference ...
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... grotesque the object of mockery is a specific nega- tive phenomenon , something that " should not exist " ( nichtsein- sollendes ) . Schneegans sees precisely in this fact the basic nature of the grotesque : it exaggerates and ...
... grotesque the object of mockery is a specific nega- tive phenomenon , something that " should not exist " ( nichtsein- sollendes ) . Schneegans sees precisely in this fact the basic nature of the grotesque : it exaggerates and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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