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Page xvi
... novel , but it is also a subversively open book itself . For example , in the fourth book of Gargantua the tale is told of Master Villon , a rogue who wishes to organize a travestied passion play . All that is lacking is a costume for ...
... novel , but it is also a subversively open book itself . For example , in the fourth book of Gargantua the tale is told of Master Villon , a rogue who wishes to organize a travestied passion play . All that is lacking is a costume for ...
Page xvii
... novel among other literary genres . This theme had a par- ticular urgency in the 1930s because the novel had become the primary focus of the government's efforts to bring Soviet intellec- tual institutions into line . In 1932 all ...
... novel among other literary genres . This theme had a par- ticular urgency in the 1930s because the novel had become the primary focus of the government's efforts to bring Soviet intellec- tual institutions into line . In 1932 all ...
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... novel " The Ex- travagant Shepherd " ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially rational ...
... novel " The Ex- travagant Shepherd " ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially rational ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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