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... positive review of Bakhtin's Dostoevsky book , which had helped lighten Bakhtin's original sentence after his arrest in 1929 ; and Lunacharsky's basic argument , that carni- val was a kind of safety valve for passions the common people ...
... positive review of Bakhtin's Dostoevsky book , which had helped lighten Bakhtin's original sentence after his arrest in 1929 ; and Lunacharsky's basic argument , that carni- val was a kind of safety valve for passions the common people ...
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... positive pole takes place . When the grotesque is used to illustrate an abstract idea , its nature is inevitably dis- torted . The essence of the grotesque is precisely to present a con- tradictory and double - faced fullness of life ...
... positive pole takes place . When the grotesque is used to illustrate an abstract idea , its nature is inevitably dis- torted . The essence of the grotesque is precisely to present a con- tradictory and double - faced fullness of life ...
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... positive and its negative aspects . The positive aspect is historicity , the awareness of time and of becoming . Reality loses its static , naturalistic , and uncertain character ( restrained only by abstract rationalist thought ) ; the ...
... positive and its negative aspects . The positive aspect is historicity , the awareness of time and of becoming . Reality loses its static , naturalistic , and uncertain character ( restrained only by abstract rationalist thought ) ; 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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