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... Rabelais laughing because Bakhtin knows how Rabelais wrote his book and , in fact , writes one very much like it . Rabelais and His World is , of course , about the subversive openness of the Rabelaisian novel , but it is also a ...
... Rabelais laughing because Bakhtin knows how Rabelais wrote his book and , in fact , writes one very much like it . Rabelais and His World is , of course , about the subversive openness of the Rabelaisian novel , but it is also a ...
Page 129
... Rabelais was founded ( La Société des Etudes Rabelaisiennes ) . This is an important land- mark . The society was composed of the pupils and friends of the Rabelaisian scholar Abel Lefranc . It became the center of these studies not ...
... Rabelais was founded ( La Société des Etudes Rabelaisiennes ) . This is an important land- mark . The society was composed of the pupils and friends of the Rabelaisian scholar Abel Lefranc . It became the center of these studies not ...
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... Rabelais ' imagery and style . Veselovsky's interpretation largely determined the treatment of Rabelais in our university courses almost until our time . Until World War II Soviet literary critics did not change this situation ...
... Rabelais ' imagery and style . Veselovsky's interpretation largely determined the treatment of Rabelais in our university courses almost until our time . Until World War II Soviet literary critics did not change this situation ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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