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Page 25
The sense of time and of change was broadened and deepened , drawing into its
cycle social and historic phenomena . The cyclical character is superseded by
the sense of historic time . The grotesque images with their relation to changing ...
The sense of time and of change was broadened and deepened , drawing into its
cycle social and historic phenomena . The cyclical character is superseded by
the sense of historic time . The grotesque images with their relation to changing ...
Page 112
Doubtless the tradition of replacing Rabelais ' characters and the various
episodes of his novel by real historic figures and events of political and court life
was started as early as the sixteenth century , was transmitted to the seventeenth
...
Doubtless the tradition of replacing Rabelais ' characters and the various
episodes of his novel by real historic figures and events of political and court life
was started as early as the sixteenth century , was transmitted to the seventeenth
...
Page 406
For him the biological element could not be separated from the social , historic ,
and cultural element . The father ' s new flowering in the son does not take place
on the same level but on a higher degree of mankind ' s development . When life
...
For him the biological element could not be separated from the social , historic ,
and cultural element . The father ' s new flowering in the son does not take place
on the same level but on a higher degree of mankind ' s development . When life
...
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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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