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... gives these images a new meaning but keeps intact their traditional contents : copulation , pregnancy , birth , growth , old age , disintegration , dismemberment . All these in their direct material aspect are the main element in the ...
... gives these images a new meaning but keeps intact their traditional contents : copulation , pregnancy , birth , growth , old age , disintegration , dismemberment . All these in their direct material aspect are the main element in the ...
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... gives a broad interpretation of grotesque imagery . He finds it in preclassical antiquity ( the hydra , the harpies , the cyclopes , and other archaic images ) ; he further places in this category all postantique literature , starting ...
... gives a broad interpretation of grotesque imagery . He finds it in preclassical antiquity ( the hydra , the harpies , the cyclopes , and other archaic images ) ; he further places in this category all postantique literature , starting ...
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... gives birth to the new one . Death throes are combined with birth in one indis- soluble whole . This process is represented in the images of the material bodily lower stratum ; everything descends into the earth and the bodily grave in ...
... gives birth to the new one . Death throes are combined with birth in one indis- soluble whole . This process is represented in the images of the material bodily lower stratum ; everything descends into the earth and the bodily grave in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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