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... literature of the Middle Ages . Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval men , even in the time given over to them . Large medieval cities devoted an average of three months a year to these ...
... literature of the Middle Ages . Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval men , even in the time given over to them . Large medieval cities devoted an average of three months a year to these ...
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... literature as Boccaccio's Decameron , the novels of Rabelais and Cervantes , Shakespeare's dramas and comedies , and others . The walls between official and nonofficial literature were inevitably to crumble , especially be- cause in the ...
... literature as Boccaccio's Decameron , the novels of Rabelais and Cervantes , Shakespeare's dramas and comedies , and others . The walls between official and nonofficial literature were inevitably to crumble , especially be- cause in the ...
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... literature , especially if the literature is gay or abusive in character . The com- mon human fund of familiar and abusive gesticulations is also based on these sharply defined images . This boundless ocean of grotesque bodily imagery ...
... literature , especially if the literature is gay or abusive in character . The com- mon human fund of familiar and abusive gesticulations is also based on these sharply defined images . This boundless ocean of grotesque bodily imagery ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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