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... Pantagruel and who represents water , says : " I fly over the seas , more sprightly than a bird of prey . " During his flights he becomes saturated with sea salt and is therefore related to the substance that causes thirst . In this ...
... Pantagruel and who represents water , says : " I fly over the seas , more sprightly than a bird of prey . " During his flights he becomes saturated with sea salt and is therefore related to the substance that causes thirst . In this ...
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... Pantagruel had salted their throats . ( Book 2 , Chapter 18 ) In the burning of the knights episode and in the banquet with which we are already familiar we see Pantagruel's gaping mouth . The knight whom he captured was afraid that ...
... Pantagruel had salted their throats . ( Book 2 , Chapter 18 ) In the burning of the knights episode and in the banquet with which we are already familiar we see Pantagruel's gaping mouth . The knight whom he captured was afraid that ...
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... Pantagruel's single combat with Werewolf . This is an interplay of similar images . Werewolf ad- vanced with gaping jaws ( la gueule ouverte ) , and Pantagruel poured over his enemy some eighteen casks and one tub of salt which stuffed ...
... Pantagruel's single combat with Werewolf . This is an interplay of similar images . Werewolf ad- vanced with gaping jaws ( la gueule ouverte ) , and Pantagruel poured over his enemy some eighteen casks and one tub of salt which stuffed ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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