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... material bodily principle , that is , images of the human body with its food , drink , defecation , and sexual life , plays a predominant role . Images of the body are offered , moreover , in an extremely exaggerated form . Rabelais was ...
... material bodily principle , that is , images of the human body with its food , drink , defecation , and sexual life , plays a predominant role . Images of the body are offered , moreover , in an extremely exaggerated form . Rabelais was ...
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. Grotesque realism The material bodily principle in grotesque realism is offered in its all - popular festive and utopian aspect . The cosmic , social , and bodily elements are given here as an indivisible ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. Grotesque realism The material bodily principle in grotesque realism is offered in its all - popular festive and utopian aspect . The cosmic , social , and bodily elements are given here as an indivisible ...
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... material bodily images of Don Quixote . But it is precisely this aspect which creates the grand style of Cervantes ' realism , his universal nature , and his deep popular utopianism . A second aspect appears , under Cervantes ' pen , as ...
... material bodily images of Don Quixote . But it is precisely this aspect which creates the grand style of Cervantes ' realism , his universal nature , and his deep popular utopianism . A second aspect appears , under Cervantes ' pen , as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries drink earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages nature novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian regenerating Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words