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Page 173
... fear and suffering , the two leading motives of medieval ideology . The image of defecation from fear is a traditional debasement not of the coward only but of fear itself ; this is one of the important variants of the " Malbrough theme ...
... fear and suffering , the two leading motives of medieval ideology . The image of defecation from fear is a traditional debasement not of the coward only but of fear itself ; this is one of the important variants of the " Malbrough theme ...
Page 174
... fear is that it usually opens the back door of the rotunda where fecal guests await their turn to emerge . ( Book 4 , Chapter 67 ) Further , Rabelais tells the story of Pantolfe de la Cassina of Siena , who suffered from constipation ...
... fear is that it usually opens the back door of the rotunda where fecal guests await their turn to emerge . ( Book 4 , Chapter 67 ) Further , Rabelais tells the story of Pantolfe de la Cassina of Siena , who suffered from constipation ...
Page 336
... fear ( as any other fear ) is de- feated by laughter . Therefore dung and urine , as comic matter that can be interpreted bodily , play an important part in these images . They appear in hyperbolic quantities and cosmic dimensions . Cos ...
... fear ( as any other fear ) is de- feated by laughter . Therefore dung and urine , as comic matter that can be interpreted bodily , play an important part in these images . They appear in hyperbolic quantities and cosmic dimensions . Cos ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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