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... role in relation to Don Quixote can be compared to the role of me- dieval parodies versus high ideology and cult , to the role of the clown versus serious ceremonial , to charnage versus carême . The gay principle of regeneration can ...
... role in relation to Don Quixote can be compared to the role of me- dieval parodies versus high ideology and cult , to the role of the clown versus serious ceremonial , to charnage versus carême . The gay principle of regeneration can ...
Page 279
... role in Rabelais ' novel . There is scarcely a single page in his book where food and drink do not figure , if only as metaphors and epithets . These images are closely interwoven with those of the grotesque body . At times it is ...
... role in Rabelais ' novel . There is scarcely a single page in his book where food and drink do not figure , if only as metaphors and epithets . These images are closely interwoven with those of the grotesque body . At times it is ...
Page 287
... role in scriptures : Adam is in the middle , Eve is sitting on a fig leaf , Cain on a plow , Abel on a milk jug , Noah on the ark , Absalom on branches , and Judas on a money - box . The food and drink served to the guests are also ...
... role in scriptures : Adam is in the middle , Eve is sitting on a fig leaf , Cain on a plow , Abel on a milk jug , Noah on the ark , Absalom on branches , and Judas on a money - box . The food and drink served to the guests are also ...
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