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... sources of the Rabe- laisian philosophy of laughter . They influenced not only Joubert's treatise but also the opinions current in literary and humanist circles concerning the meaning and virtue of laughter . All three sources define ...
... sources of the Rabe- laisian philosophy of laughter . They influenced not only Joubert's treatise but also the opinions current in literary and humanist circles concerning the meaning and virtue of laughter . All three sources define ...
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... sources , was not com- pletely adequate to the true practice of laughter of that period . This philosophy did not reflect that which was essential , the his- torical orientation of this laughter . Literary as well as other documents of ...
... sources , was not com- pletely adequate to the true practice of laughter of that period . This philosophy did not reflect that which was essential , the his- torical orientation of this laughter . Literary as well as other documents of ...
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... sources . He sees one such source in " the very movement of life , " that is , in becoming , change , gay relativity . He writes : In Rabelais ' comic affect there is the feeling of the general rela- tivity of great and small , exalted ...
... sources . He sees one such source in " the very movement of life , " that is , in becoming , change , gay relativity . He writes : In Rabelais ' comic affect there is the feeling of the general rela- tivity of great and small , exalted ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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