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... sense of time and of change was broadened and deepened , drawing into its cycle social and historic phenomena . The cyclical charac- ter is superseded by the sense of historic time . The grotesque im- ages with their relation to ...
... sense of time and of change was broadened and deepened , drawing into its cycle social and historic phenomena . The cyclical charac- ter is superseded by the sense of historic time . The grotesque im- ages with their relation to ...
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... sense of a specific group of consciously es- tablished rules , norms , and proportions in the representation of the human body . ( It is still possible to speak of the classic canon in such a narrow sense at certain phases of its ...
... sense of a specific group of consciously es- tablished rules , norms , and proportions in the representation of the human body . ( It is still possible to speak of the classic canon in such a narrow sense at certain phases of its ...
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... sense of the word , granted this right to the Decameron's hero . The Rabelaisian solution was a direct appeal to the popular - fes- tive forms . They bestowed upon both thought and word the most radical freedom , an outward and inner ...
... sense of the word , granted this right to the Decameron's hero . The Rabelaisian solution was a direct appeal to the popular - fes- tive forms . They bestowed upon both thought and word the most radical freedom , an outward and inner ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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