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Page 160
This is a typical example of the tone and style of the fair . But of course these
announcements have nothing in common with naïve and direct practical
advertisements . They are filled with popular - festive laughter . They toy with the
objects that ...
This is a typical example of the tone and style of the fair . But of course these
announcements have nothing in common with naïve and direct practical
advertisements . They are filled with popular - festive laughter . They toy with the
objects that ...
Page 285
Outside all considerations of prudence , such an atmosphere and such a tone
corresponded to the very essence of truth as Rabelais understood it : a truth
inwardly free , gay , and materialistic . Behind the sanctimonious seriousness of
all ...
Outside all considerations of prudence , such an atmosphere and such a tone
corresponded to the very essence of truth as Rabelais understood it : a truth
inwardly free , gay , and materialistic . Behind the sanctimonious seriousness of
all ...
Page 433
27 The dual 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 ...
27 The dual 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 ...
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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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