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... laugh- ter is Lucian , especially his image of Menippus laughing in the kingdom of the dead . Lucian's work " Menippus , or the Descent into Hades " had an essential influence on Rabelais , more precisely on the episode of Epistemon's ...
... laugh- ter is Lucian , especially his image of Menippus laughing in the kingdom of the dead . Lucian's work " Menippus , or the Descent into Hades " had an essential influence on Rabelais , more precisely on the episode of Epistemon's ...
Page 92
... laughs . The serfs are deprived of the right to smile in the presence of the landown- ers . Only equals may laugh . If inferiors are permitted to laugh in front of their superiors , and if they cannot suppress their hilarity , this ...
... laughs . The serfs are deprived of the right to smile in the presence of the landown- ers . Only equals may laugh . If inferiors are permitted to laugh in front of their superiors , and if they cannot suppress their hilarity , this ...
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... laugh ? Mozart : Ah , Salieri , Cannot you laugh yourself ? Salieri : No , I do not laugh when some unworthy painter Smears Raphael's Madonna , I do not laugh when a buffoon Insults in parody the Alighieri . ( Pushkin , " Mozart and ...
... laugh ? Mozart : Ah , Salieri , Cannot you laugh yourself ? Salieri : No , I do not laugh when some unworthy painter Smears Raphael's Madonna , I do not laugh when a buffoon Insults in parody the Alighieri . ( Pushkin , " Mozart 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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