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... organs , the breasts , the phallus , the potbelly , the nose . The body discloses its essence as a principle of growth which exceeds its own limits only in copulation , pregnancy , child- birth , the throes of death , eating , drinking ...
... organs , the breasts , the phallus , the potbelly , the nose . The body discloses its essence as a principle of growth which exceeds its own limits only in copulation , pregnancy , child- birth , the throes of death , eating , drinking ...
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... organs . This signifies destruction , a grave for the one who is debased . But such debasing gestures and expressions are ambivalent , since the lower stratum . is not only a bodily grave but also the area of the genital organs , the ...
... organs . This signifies destruction , a grave for the one who is debased . But such debasing gestures and expressions are ambivalent , since the lower stratum . is not only a bodily grave but also the area of the genital organs , the ...
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... organs . He states that when a man's head is cut off he alone perishes , but if he loses his genital organs all the human race will be destroyed . And he adds that these organs were the stones with which Deucalian and Pyrrha ...
... organs . He states that when a man's head is cut off he alone perishes , but if he loses his genital organs all the human race will be destroyed . And he adds that these organs were the stones with which Deucalian and Pyrrha ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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