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... book's distinctiveness . Soviets who objected - and still object — to the book see in it a dimension that foreign scholars often miss as they hastily note obvious par- allels between Bakhtin's scathing references to the Catholic church ...
... book's distinctiveness . Soviets who objected - and still object — to the book see in it a dimension that foreign scholars often miss as they hastily note obvious par- allels between Bakhtin's scathing references to the Catholic church ...
Page 162
... Book Rabelais resumes this theme and bases the curative power of laughter on the teaching of Hippoc- rates , Galen , Plato , and others . Having enumerated the " Chronicles " ' merits in the prologue of the Second Book , the author ...
... Book Rabelais resumes this theme and bases the curative power of laughter on the teaching of Hippoc- rates , Galen , Plato , and others . Having enumerated the " Chronicles " ' merits in the prologue of the Second Book , the author ...
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... Book . They dominate in the carnivalesque war of sausages . We also find in this book the episode of the Gastrolaters and the longest list of foods of all world literature , not to mention the famous praise of Master Gaster and of his ...
... Book . They dominate in the carnivalesque war of sausages . We also find in this book the episode of the Gastrolaters and the longest list of foods of all world literature , not to mention the famous praise of Master Gaster and of his ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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