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... positive . It is presented not in a private , egotistic form , severed from the other spheres of life , but as something universal , repre- senting all the people . As such it is opposed to severance from the material and bodily roots ...
... positive . It is presented not in a private , egotistic form , severed from the other spheres of life , but as something universal , repre- senting all the people . As such it is opposed to severance from the material and bodily roots ...
Page 45
... positive hyperbolism of the material bodily principle of the Middle Ages and of Rabelais . He fails to grasp the positive regenerating power of laughter . He sees merely the negative , rhetorical satire of the nineteenth cen- tury , a ...
... positive hyperbolism of the material bodily principle of the Middle Ages and of Rabelais . He fails to grasp the positive regenerating power of laughter . He sees merely the negative , rhetorical satire of the nineteenth cen- tury , a ...
Page 127
... positive and the negative aspects of Hugo's concept are revealed . The special traits that he consid- ers the sign of genius , in the Romanticist sense of this word , must be attributed to writers who reflect essentially and deeply the ...
... positive and the negative aspects of Hugo's concept are revealed . The special traits that he consid- ers the sign of genius , in the Romanticist sense of this word , must be attributed to writers who reflect essentially and deeply the ...
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