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... Gargantua . Each springs from an age of revolution and each enacts a peculiarly open sense of the text . Bakhtin , unlike many others who have dealt with Gargantua , can hear Rabelais laughing because Bakhtin knows how Rabelais wrote ...
... Gargantua . Each springs from an age of revolution and each enacts a peculiarly open sense of the text . Bakhtin , unlike many others who have dealt with Gargantua , can hear Rabelais laughing because Bakhtin knows how Rabelais wrote ...
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... Gargantua dans les traditions populaires , 1883. Contemporary berrichon legends of Gargantua and other giants are contained in the book of Jean Baf- fier , Nos Géants d'autrefois , Récits berrichons , Paris , 1920. Even in the late oral ...
... Gargantua dans les traditions populaires , 1883. Contemporary berrichon legends of Gargantua and other giants are contained in the book of Jean Baf- fier , Nos Géants d'autrefois , Récits berrichons , Paris , 1920. Even in the late oral ...
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... ( Gargantua ) . Gargantua's childish amusements are here pictured with the aid of proverbs and various common expressions . But they follow each other without any logical sequence . Moreover , these expressions are turned inside out .
... ( Gargantua ) . Gargantua's childish amusements are here pictured with the aid of proverbs and various common expressions . But they follow each other without any logical sequence . Moreover , these expressions are turned inside out .
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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