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The attitude toward laughter of the seventeenth century and of the years that
followed can be characterized thus . Laughter is not a universal , philosophical
form . It can refer only to individual and individually typical phenomena of social
life .
The attitude toward laughter of the seventeenth century and of the years that
followed can be characterized thus . Laughter is not a universal , philosophical
form . It can refer only to individual and individually typical phenomena of social
life .
Page 71
Let us stress once more that for the Renaissance ( as for the antique sources
described above ) the characteristic trait of laughter was precisely the recognition
of its positive , regenerating , creative * meaning . This clearly distinguishes it
from ...
Let us stress once more that for the Renaissance ( as for the antique sources
described above ) the characteristic trait of laughter was precisely the recognition
of its positive , regenerating , creative * meaning . This clearly distinguishes it
from ...
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laughter . He is not a satirist in the ordinary sense of the word . His laughter is by
no means directed at the distinct , purely negative aspects of reality . Only a few
secondary characters and episodes of the novel ' s last books can be described ...
laughter . He is not a satirist in the ordinary sense of the word . His laughter is by
no means directed at the distinct , purely negative aspects of reality . Only a few
secondary characters and episodes of the novel ' s last books can be described ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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