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... present the character of a popular - festive comic performance : it is a gay and free play , but it is also full of deep meaning . Its hero and author is time itself , which uncrowns , covers with ridicule , kills the old world ( the ...
... present the character of a popular - festive comic performance : it is a gay and free play , but it is also full of deep meaning . Its hero and author is time itself , which uncrowns , covers with ridicule , kills the old world ( the ...
Page 286
... present . In the Hippoc- rates collection there is a treatise on " Winds " with which Rabelais was well acquainted . It contained the following description of in- ebriety at banquets : " due to a sudden increase of blood , there is a ...
... present . In the Hippoc- rates collection there is a treatise on " Winds " with which Rabelais was well acquainted . It contained the following description of in- ebriety at banquets : " due to a sudden increase of blood , there is a ...
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... presents an individual body ; the image consists of orifices and convexities that present another , newly conceived body . It is a point of transition in a life eternally renewed , the inexhaust- ible vessel of death and conception . As ...
... presents an individual body ; the image consists of orifices and convexities that present another , newly conceived body . It is a point of transition in a life eternally renewed , the inexhaust- ible vessel of death and conception . As ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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abuse Ages already ambivalent ancient antique appear aspect become birth body Book called carnival carnivalesque century Chapter character closely combined comic completely concept concerning contains course culture death described earth elements entire episode especially essential example existed expressed familiar fear feast festive Finally folk forms Gargantua genre gives grotesque historic human humor images important individual influence interpretation Italy king language laugh laughter limited linked literary literature living lower stratum marketplace material bodily meaning medieval Middle Ages names nature novel objects offered official organs Pantagruel parody philosophy picture play popular popular-festive positive praise present principle Rabelais Rabelaisian realism Renaissance renewal represented role satire seen sense serious similar sources speaking speech sphere spirit symbol theme tion tone tradition transformed true truth turned typical universal various whole