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... official world , its own church versus the official church , its own state versus the official state " ( p . 88 ) . And it is clear what forms of governance are typical of each . As Bakhtin says in his opening chapter , he " must stress ...
... official world , its own church versus the official church , its own state versus the official state " ( p . 88 ) . And it is clear what forms of governance are typical of each . As Bakhtin says in his opening chapter , he " must stress ...
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... official feast looked back at the past and used the past to conse- crate the present . Unlike the earlier and purer feast , the official feast asserted all that was stable , unchanging , perennial : the exist- ing hierarchy , the ...
... official feast looked back at the past and used the past to conse- crate the present . Unlike the earlier and purer feast , the official feast asserted all that was stable , unchanging , perennial : the exist- ing hierarchy , the ...
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... official order and official ideology , it always remained " with the people . " This popular aspect was especially apparent on feast days . The dates of the fairs were usually adapted to the great feasts of the year but were extended ...
... official order and official ideology , it always remained " with the people . " This popular aspect was especially apparent on feast days . The dates of the fairs were usually adapted to the great feasts of the year but were extended ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
Copyright | |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect Bakhtin banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character church comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor ideological imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words