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... spirit of existentialism , presents first an opposi- tion of life to death . Such an opposition is completely contrary to the system of grotesque imagery , in which death is not a nega- tion of life seen as the great body of all the ...
... spirit of existentialism , presents first an opposi- tion of life to death . Such an opposition is completely contrary to the system of grotesque imagery , in which death is not a nega- tion of life seen as the great body of all the ...
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... spirit . Free play with the sacred — this is the basic content of the symposium of the Middle Ages . This does not represent nihilism , nor the primitive enjoyment of debasing the higher level . We will not understand the spirit of ...
... spirit . Free play with the sacred — this is the basic content of the symposium of the Middle Ages . This does not represent nihilism , nor the primitive enjoyment of debasing the higher level . We will not understand the spirit of ...
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... spirit that if a man abstains from food and drink , he can still go on living for two or three days and more ; but if he closes the path of the spirit to his body , he will die on that very day , so great is the need of that spirit for ...
... spirit that if a man abstains from food and drink , he can still go on living for two or three days and more ; but if he closes the path of the spirit to his body , he will die on that very day , so great is the need of that spirit for ...
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