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Page 104
This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of
the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially
rational and narrow tendency , the novel contains a number of traditional images
and ...
This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of
the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially
rational and narrow tendency , the novel contains a number of traditional images
and ...
Page 260
The theme of Dame Douce merits our special attention . On May Day eve
prostitutes enjoy special privileges and even authority ; in our play Dame Douce
prepares to settle accounts with her enemies . Finally , an important element in
the play ...
The theme of Dame Douce merits our special attention . On May Day eve
prostitutes enjoy special privileges and even authority ; in our play Dame Douce
prepares to settle accounts with her enemies . Finally , an important element in
the play ...
Page 329
the novel ' s images starts with the theme of death - renewal - fertility . This theme
also opens the second chapter : At the age of four hundred fourscore and fourty -
four years , Gargantua begat his son Pantagruel upon his wife named Badebec ...
the novel ' s images starts with the theme of death - renewal - fertility . This theme
also opens the second chapter : At the age of four hundred fourscore and fourty -
four years , Gargantua begat his son Pantagruel upon his wife named Badebec ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
und TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rabelais and His World Volume 177 of M.I.T.: Literary criticism Volume 177 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass: MIT paperback series |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Publisher | M.I.T. Press, 1968 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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