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Terror was turned into something gay and comic . Folk culture brought the world
close to man , gave it a bodily form , and established a link through the body and
bodily life , in contrast to the abstract and spiritual mastery sought by Roman ...
Terror was turned into something gay and comic . Folk culture brought the world
close to man , gave it a bodily form , and established a link through the body and
bodily life , in contrast to the abstract and spiritual mastery sought by Roman ...
Page 87
He quoted many examples of this usage ; thus while a goblet of wine was turned
upside down , the words of the penitential psalm : “ Create a clean heart in me , O
God , and renew a right spirit within my bowels " was usually recited . Even the ...
He quoted many examples of this usage ; thus while a goblet of wine was turned
upside down , the words of the penitential psalm : “ Create a clean heart in me , O
God , and renew a right spirit within my bowels " was usually recited . Even the ...
Page 411
Men are transvested as women and vice versa , costumes are turned inside out ,
and outer garments replace underwear . The description of a charivari of the
early fourteenth century , in Roman du Fauvel , says of its participants , “ They ...
Men are transvested as women and vice versa , costumes are turned inside out ,
and outer garments replace underwear . The description of a charivari of the
early fourteenth century , in Roman du Fauvel , says of its participants , “ They ...
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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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| 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 |
| ISBN | 0262055031, 9780262055031 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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