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... novel " The Ex- travagant Shepherd " ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially rational ...
... novel " The Ex- travagant Shepherd " ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially rational ...
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... novel belongs to the eighteenth century , the roman à clef was written throughout the seventeenth century . Such was the Latin novel Satyricon ( London , 1603 ) of the English writer John Barclay , which enjoyed a great success in the ...
... novel belongs to the eighteenth century , the roman à clef was written throughout the seventeenth century . Such was the Latin novel Satyricon ( London , 1603 ) of the English writer John Barclay , which enjoyed a great success in the ...
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... novel . Rabelais ' architectural terminology also reflects new develop- ments . This subject takes up considerable space in his novel . His architectural vocabulary is filled with new and renewed terms , many of which he was the first ...
... novel . Rabelais ' architectural terminology also reflects new develop- ments . This subject takes up considerable space in his novel . His architectural vocabulary is filled with new and renewed terms , many of which he was the first ...
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