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Page 372
... objects used as swabs are uncrowned in order to be re- generated . Their half - effaced image reappears in a new light . In this long list every object emerges quite unexpectedly ; its appearance is completely unprepared . The images of ...
... objects used as swabs are uncrowned in order to be re- generated . Their half - effaced image reappears in a new light . In this long list every object emerges quite unexpectedly ; its appearance is completely unprepared . The images of ...
Page 455
... objects entered this field of vision . These objects were some- what late in making their appearance in France , but they poured in a mighty stream from Italy and continued to increase during the wars in that country . Rabelais lived ...
... objects entered this field of vision . These objects were some- what late in making their appearance in France , but they poured in a mighty stream from Italy and continued to increase during the wars in that country . Rabelais lived ...
Page 462
... object and of its name , or the transfer of a known object to an unexpected use and place among other objects , individualizes it in a peculiar fashion , strengthens the special na- ture of the name , and brings it nearer to the ...
... object and of its name , or the transfer of a known object to an unexpected use and place among other objects , individualizes it in a peculiar fashion , strengthens the special na- ture of the name , and brings it nearer to the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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