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... nature " and are op- posed to the monolith of the Christian cult and ideology . It was precisely the one - sided character of official seriousness which led to the necessity of creating a vent for the second nature of man , for laughter ...
... nature " and are op- posed to the monolith of the Christian cult and ideology . It was precisely the one - sided character of official seriousness which led to the necessity of creating a vent for the second nature of man , for laughter ...
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... natural phenomena as mountains , rivers , rocks , and islands with the bodies of giants or with their different organs ; these bodies are , therefore , not separated from the world or from nature . We have also pointed out that giants ...
... natural phenomena as mountains , rivers , rocks , and islands with the bodies of giants or with their different organs ; these bodies are , therefore , not separated from the world or from nature . We have also pointed out that giants ...
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... nature is ready - made and un- changing ; it receives one single seed which can and must develop in them . But man receives at his birth the seeds of every form of life . He may choose the seed that will develop and bear fruit . He ...
... nature is ready - made and un- changing ; it receives one single seed which can and must develop in them . But man receives at his birth the seeds of every form of life . He may choose the seed that will develop and bear fruit . He ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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