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It is also an intermediate between the living body and dead disintegrating matter
that is being transformed into earth , into manure . The living body returns to the
earth its excrement , which fertilizes the earth as does the body of the dead .
It is also an intermediate between the living body and dead disintegrating matter
that is being transformed into earth , into manure . The living body returns to the
earth its excrement , which fertilizes the earth as does the body of the dead .
Page 282
This is why banquet imagery went on living in the creative life of the people . The
images continued to developed , to be renewed and filled with a richer meaning .
They grew and were regenerated together with the people who created them .
This is why banquet imagery went on living in the creative life of the people . The
images continued to developed , to be renewed and filled with a richer meaning .
They grew and were regenerated together with the people who created them .
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salism with concreteness , individuality , and with a detailed presentation of living
actuality . These images are far remote from abstract symbolism and schematism
. We may say that in Rabelais ' novel the cosmic breadth of myth is combined ...
salism with concreteness , individuality , and with a detailed presentation of living
actuality . These images are far remote from abstract symbolism and schematism
. We may say that in Rabelais ' novel the cosmic breadth of myth is combined ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 31 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World A Midland book ; MB 341 Volume 341 of Midland books |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Contributor | Michael Holquist |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253348307, 9780253348302 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Medieval |
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