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... speaking world in English translation . Indeed , Bakhtin's work is considered a masterpiece of a modern study on Rabelais , both by experts in the subject and by those who are interested in literary theory and methodology . Bakhtin's ...
... speaking world in English translation . Indeed , Bakhtin's work is considered a masterpiece of a modern study on Rabelais , both by experts in the subject and by those who are interested in literary theory and methodology . Bakhtin's ...
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... speaking , two main lines of devel- opment can be traced . The first line is the modernist form ( Alfred Jarry ) , connected in various degrees with the Romantic tradition and evolved under the influence of existentialism . The second ...
... speaking , two main lines of devel- opment can be traced . The first line is the modernist form ( Alfred Jarry ) , connected in various degrees with the Romantic tradition and evolved under the influence of existentialism . The second ...
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... speaking ) has a more complex structure . Billingsgate abuse is here combined with elements of scholarly humanism and with a parody of Plato's Symposium . But the language of the market- place and its intonations of praise - abuse still ...
... speaking ) has a more complex structure . Billingsgate abuse is here combined with elements of scholarly humanism and with a parody of Plato's Symposium . But the language of the market- place and its intonations of praise - abuse still ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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