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... satire , directed against iso- lated , purely negative objects . Because of such interpretation the deep and universal nature of grotesque images was completely obscured . The most extensive work devoted to the subject was published in ...
... satire , directed against iso- lated , purely negative objects . Because of such interpretation the deep and universal nature of grotesque images was completely obscured . The most extensive work devoted to the subject was published in ...
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... satiric mockery and moral condemnation . This satire was written from the point of view of the bürger and the Protestant and was directed against feudal nobility ( the junker ) , sunk into the mire of sloth , gluttony , drunkenness ...
... satiric mockery and moral condemnation . This satire was written from the point of view of the bürger and the Protestant and was directed against feudal nobility ( the junker ) , sunk into the mire of sloth , gluttony , drunkenness ...
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... satirist , al- though he is no more a satirist than Shakespeare and less than Cervantes . Schneegans transfers to Rabelais his own narrow mod- ern interpretation of satire as a negation of separate individual 306 CHAPTER FIVE.
... satirist , al- though he is no more a satirist than Shakespeare and less than Cervantes . Schneegans transfers to Rabelais his own narrow mod- ern interpretation of satire as a negation of separate individual 306 CHAPTER FIVE.
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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