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Page 168
... tone , ap- plied to richer combinations of themes and topics . The prologue starts with the characteristic address : “ Hail , O most valiant and illustrious drinkers ! Your health my precious and pox - ridden comrades . . . " ( Beuveurs ...
... tone , ap- plied to richer combinations of themes and topics . The prologue starts with the characteristic address : “ Hail , O most valiant and illustrious drinkers ! Your health my precious and pox - ridden comrades . . . " ( Beuveurs ...
Page 285
... tone of that receding truth and doomed authority , or the tone of feeble men intimidated and filled with terror . The grotesque symposium , the carnivalesque , popular- festive or antique " table talks ” provided him with the laughing tone ...
... tone of that receding truth and doomed authority , or the tone of feeble men intimidated and filled with terror . The grotesque symposium , the carnivalesque , popular- festive or antique " table talks ” provided him with the laughing tone ...
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... tone of the people's speech is never torn away from this whole nor from the becoming ; this is why the negative and the positive elements do not seek a separate , private , and static expression . The dual tone never wants to halt the ...
... tone of the people's speech is never torn away from this whole nor from the becoming ; this is why the negative and the positive elements do not seek a separate , private , and static expression . The dual tone never wants to halt the ...
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