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... typical char- acter , commentators began to look for a specific individual . Of course popular - festive laughter admits allusions to distinct personages . But these allusions are only an overtone of the gro- tesque images , whereas the ...
... typical char- acter , commentators began to look for a specific individual . Of course popular - festive laughter admits allusions to distinct personages . But these allusions are only an overtone of the gro- tesque images , whereas the ...
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... typical question . Doctor , doesn't my urine tell If I shall perish or get well ? ( Book 4 , Letter to Cardinal Odet ) Thus urine and other eliminations ( excrement , vomit , sweat ) had in ancient medicine the connotation of life and ...
... typical question . Doctor , doesn't my urine tell If I shall perish or get well ? ( Book 4 , Letter to Cardinal Odet ) Thus urine and other eliminations ( excrement , vomit , sweat ) had in ancient medicine the connotation of life and ...
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... typical carnivals were those of Paris . Next came Nuremberg and Cologne , which adopted a more or less classic form at a somewhat later period . In Russia this process did not develop at all ; the various aspects of folk merriment of a ...
... typical carnivals were those of Paris . Next came Nuremberg and Cologne , which adopted a more or less classic form at a somewhat later period . In Russia this process did not develop at all ; the various aspects of folk merriment of a ...
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