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... medieval folk humor as a whole.30 Medieval parody , especially before the twelfth century , was not concerned with the negative , the imperfections of specific cults , ecclesiastic orders , or scholars which could be the object of ...
... medieval folk humor as a whole.30 Medieval parody , especially before the twelfth century , was not concerned with the negative , the imperfections of specific cults , ecclesiastic orders , or scholars which could be the object of ...
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. scribed above . Medieval laughter is directed at the same object as medieval seriousness . Not only does laughter make no exception for the upper stratum , but indeed it is usually directed toward it ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. scribed above . Medieval laughter is directed at the same object as medieval seriousness . Not only does laughter make no exception for the upper stratum , but indeed it is usually directed toward it ...
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... medieval literature the dismembered bodies of saints were often an occasion for grotesque images and enumerations . In one of the best medieval parodies , " The Treatise of García of Toledo , " which we have already mentioned , the hero ...
... medieval literature the dismembered bodies of saints were often an occasion for grotesque images and enumerations . In one of the best medieval parodies , " The Treatise of García of Toledo , " which we have already mentioned , the hero ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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