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There are various genres of mock rhetoric : carnivalesque debates , comic
dialogues , and euloges . Carnivalesque humor is also reflected in the fabliaux
and in the peculiar comic lyrics of vagrant scholars . All these genres are linked to
...
There are various genres of mock rhetoric : carnivalesque debates , comic
dialogues , and euloges . Carnivalesque humor is also reflected in the fabliaux
and in the peculiar comic lyrics of vagrant scholars . All these genres are linked to
...
Page 219
Every fair , usually scheduled for the dedication of a church or a first mass ,
preserved carnivalesque traits . Finally , the carnivalesque character appeared
on private family occasions , christenings and memorial services , as well as on ...
Every fair , usually scheduled for the dedication of a church or a first mass ,
preserved carnivalesque traits . Finally , the carnivalesque character appeared
on private family occasions , christenings and memorial services , as well as on ...
Page 463
Let us turn our attention to another characteristic trait of Rabelais ' style , the
carnivalesque use of numbers . Antique and medieval literature knows the
symbolic , metaphysical , and mystical use of numbers . There were the sacred
numbers ...
Let us turn our attention to another characteristic trait of Rabelais ' style , the
carnivalesque use of numbers . Antique and medieval literature knows the
symbolic , metaphysical , and mystical use of numbers . There were the sacred
numbers ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 31 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World A Midland book ; MB 341 Volume 341 of Midland books |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Contributor | Michael Holquist |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253348307, 9780253348302 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Medieval |
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