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... universal nature of grotesque images was completely obscured . The most extensive work devoted to the subject was published in 1894 by the German scientist G. Schneegans , entitled " The History of Grotesque Satire " ( Geschichte der ...
... universal nature of grotesque images was completely obscured . The most extensive work devoted to the subject was published in 1894 by the German scientist G. Schneegans , entitled " The History of Grotesque Satire " ( Geschichte der ...
Page 133
... universal and philosophic character . He does not understand that a philosophy of laughter , a universal comic aspect of the world are possible . He looks for Rabelais ' philosophy when the latter is not laughing , or more correctly ...
... universal and philosophic character . He does not understand that a philosophy of laughter , a universal comic aspect of the world are possible . He looks for Rabelais ' philosophy when the latter is not laughing , or more correctly ...
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... universal , ambivalent sense . In his letter to Cardinal Odet , the author offers a characteristic definition of the medical practice : " Hippocrates fittingly compares the practice of medicine to a strug- gle , and also to a farce with ...
... universal , ambivalent sense . In his letter to Cardinal Odet , the author offers a characteristic definition of the medical practice : " Hippocrates fittingly compares the practice of medicine to a strug- gle , and also to a farce with ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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