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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. Carnival -- intual spectacle medieval carnivals . They were , of course , far removed from the primitive community's ritual laughter . What are the peculiar traits of the comic rituals and spectacles of the ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. Carnival -- intual spectacle medieval carnivals . They were , of course , far removed from the primitive community's ritual laughter . What are the peculiar traits of the comic rituals and spectacles of the ...
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... carnival cele- brated temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order ; it marked the suspension of all hierarchical rank , privileges , norms , and prohibitions . Carnival was the true feast of time , the ...
... carnival cele- brated temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order ; it marked the suspension of all hierarchical rank , privileges , norms , and prohibitions . Carnival was the true feast of time , the ...
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... carnival processions , especially in Germany , were in- terpreted as the march of the rejected pagan gods . The idea of the deposed higher powers and truths had become part of the nucleus of carnival images . Neither can the influence ...
... carnival processions , especially in Germany , were in- terpreted as the march of the rejected pagan gods . The idea of the deposed higher powers and truths had become part of the nucleus of carnival images . Neither can the influence ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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