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... comic shows of the market- place . 2. Comic verbal compositions : parodies both oral and written , in Latin and in the vernacular . 3. Various genres of billingsgate : curses , oaths , popular blazons . These three forms of folk humor ...
... comic shows of the market- place . 2. Comic verbal compositions : parodies both oral and written , in Latin and in the vernacular . 3. Various genres of billingsgate : curses , oaths , popular blazons . These three forms of folk humor ...
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... comic cults which laughed and scoffed at the deity ( " ritual laughter " ) ; coupled with serious myths were comic and abusive ones ; coupled with heroes were their parodies and doublets . These comic rituals and myths have at- tracted ...
... comic cults which laughed and scoffed at the deity ( " ritual laughter " ) ; coupled with serious myths were comic and abusive ones ; coupled with heroes were their parodies and doublets . These comic rituals and myths have at- tracted ...
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... comic in the structure of the grotesque and indeed examines grotesque quite independently of the comic . E. K. Fischer differs from Hegel . He sees the burlesque , the comic as the essence and the driving force of this genre : " The ...
... comic in the structure of the grotesque and indeed examines grotesque quite independently of the comic . E. K. Fischer differs from Hegel . He sees the burlesque , the comic as the essence and the driving force of this genre : " The ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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