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Such an opposition is completely contrary to the system of grotesque imagery , in
which death is not a negation of life seen as the great body of all the people but
part of life as a whole — its indispensable component , the condition of its ...
Such an opposition is completely contrary to the system of grotesque imagery , in
which death is not a negation of life seen as the great body of all the people but
part of life as a whole — its indispensable component , the condition of its ...
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What remains is nothing but a corpse , old age deprived of pregnancy , equal to
itself alone ; it is alienated and torn away from the whole in which it had been
linked to that other , younger link in the chain of growth and development . The
result ...
What remains is nothing but a corpse , old age deprived of pregnancy , equal to
itself alone ; it is alienated and torn away from the whole in which it had been
linked to that other , younger link in the chain of growth and development . The
result ...
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gay time . The point of view of the whole is far from being neutral and indifferent .
It is not the dispassionate position of a third party , for there is no place for a third
party in the world of becoming . The whole simultaneously praises and abuses .
gay time . The point of view of the whole is far from being neutral and indifferent .
It is not the dispassionate position of a third party , for there is no place for a third
party in the world of becoming . The whole simultaneously praises and abuses .
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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 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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