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... literary thought and studies . If mentioned at all , it is either listed among the vulgar comic genres or ... literary analysis . Neither does Schneegans see the universal character of these images . His shortsightedness is typical of ...
... literary thought and studies . If mentioned at all , it is either listed among the vulgar comic genres or ... literary analysis . Neither does Schneegans see the universal character of these images . His shortsightedness is typical of ...
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... literary bounds . But this hierarchy was as yet only an abstract and con- fused idea . Certain social , political , and ideological transforma- tions had still to take place ; the circle of readers and literary connoisseurs had to be ...
... literary bounds . But this hierarchy was as yet only an abstract and con- fused idea . Certain social , political , and ideological transforma- tions had still to take place ; the circle of readers and literary connoisseurs had to be ...
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... literary prose . Rabelais was forced to lean on oral forms in all the branches of knowledge ( in some of them more , and in others less ) ; he had to draw upon the verbal wealth of the vernacular . The words taken from this source were ...
... literary prose . Rabelais was forced to lean on oral forms in all the branches of knowledge ( in some of them more , and in others less ) ; he had to draw upon the verbal wealth of the vernacular . The words taken from this source were ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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