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... become alienated . In the grotesque , on the contrary , all that was for us familiar and friendly suddenly becomes hostile . It is our own world that undergoes this change . Kayser's definition can be applied only to certain manifesta ...
... become alienated . In the grotesque , on the contrary , all that was for us familiar and friendly suddenly becomes hostile . It is our own world that undergoes this change . Kayser's definition can be applied only to certain manifesta ...
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... become one - sided , flat , and stripped of their rich content . The correctness of the term grotesque as applied to ... becoming and growth , the eternal incomplete unfinished nature of being . Its images present simultaneously the two ...
... become one - sided , flat , and stripped of their rich content . The correctness of the term grotesque as applied to ... becoming and growth , the eternal incomplete unfinished nature of being . Its images present simultaneously the two ...
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... becoming . He is out- side all hierarchies , for a hierarchy can determine only that which represents stable , immovable ... become an angel and a son of God . Pico pre- serves the language of the hierarchy , he preserves in part the old ...
... becoming . He is out- side all hierarchies , for a hierarchy can determine only that which represents stable , immovable ... become an angel and a son of God . Pico pre- serves the language of the hierarchy , he preserves in part the old ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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