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... material bodily principle , that is , images of the human body with its food , drink , defecation , and sexual life , plays a predominant role . Images of the body are offered , moreover , in an extremely exaggerated form . Rabelais was ...
... material bodily principle , that is , images of the human body with its food , drink , defecation , and sexual life , plays a predominant role . Images of the body are offered , moreover , in an extremely exaggerated form . Rabelais was ...
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. The material bodily principle in grotesque realism is offered in its all - popular festive and utopian aspect . The cosmic , social , and bodily elements are given here as an indivisible whole . And this ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. The material bodily principle in grotesque realism is offered in its all - popular festive and utopian aspect . The cosmic , social , and bodily elements are given here as an indivisible whole . And this ...
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... material bodily images of Don Quixote . But it is precisely this aspect which creates the grand style of Cervantes ' realism , his universal nature , and his deep popular utopianism . A second aspect appears , under Cervantes ' pen , as ...
... material bodily images of Don Quixote . But it is precisely this aspect which creates the grand style of Cervantes ' realism , his universal nature , and his deep popular utopianism . A second aspect appears , under Cervantes ' pen , as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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