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... linked with such celebrations . Its laughter was both am- bivalent and festive . It was the entire recreational literature of the Middle Ages . Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval men ...
... linked with such celebrations . Its laughter was both am- bivalent and festive . It was the entire recreational literature of the Middle Ages . Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval men ...
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... linked to it can raise no doubts whatever . But how can our term grotesque realism be justified ? We can offer only a preliminary answer to this question here . The characteristic traits which mark the sharp difference of medieval and ...
... linked to it can raise no doubts whatever . But how can our term grotesque realism be justified ? We can offer only a preliminary answer to this question here . The characteristic traits which mark the sharp difference of medieval and ...
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... linked on one hand with the cosmic elements water and sea salt and on the other hand with the grotesque image of the body ( open mouth , thirst , drunkenness ) . Finally , he is linked with a purely carnivalesque gesture of throwing ...
... linked on one hand with the cosmic elements water and sea salt and on the other hand with the grotesque image of the body ( open mouth , thirst , drunkenness ) . Finally , he is linked with a purely carnivalesque gesture of throwing ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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