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... important manifestation of world literature . To a certain degree it was a reaction against the ele- ments of classicism which characterized the self - importance of the Enlightenment . It was a reaction against the cold rationalism ...
... important manifestation of world literature . To a certain degree it was a reaction against the ele- ments of classicism which characterized the self - importance of the Enlightenment . It was a reaction against the cold rationalism ...
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... important . Not only was his prestige founded on the comments contained in his medical treatise con- cerning the importance of a gay and cheerful mood on the part of the physician and patient fighting disease , 11 but was also due to ...
... important . Not only was his prestige founded on the comments contained in his medical treatise con- cerning the importance of a gay and cheerful mood on the part of the physician and patient fighting disease , 11 but was also due to ...
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... important to stress the immense importance of translations in the above mutual clarification of languages . We know that translation played a considerable role in the linguistic and literary life of the sixteenth century . The ...
... important to stress the immense importance of translations in the above mutual clarification of languages . We know that translation played a considerable role in the linguistic and literary life of the sixteenth century . 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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