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... symbol itself . The swab is one of the widespread images of scatological literature , of anecdotes , familiar colloquial genres , curses , billingsgate meta- phors , and analogies . Neither is this image new in literature . After ...
... symbol itself . The swab is one of the widespread images of scatological literature , of anecdotes , familiar colloquial genres , curses , billingsgate meta- phors , and analogies . Neither is this image new in literature . After ...
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... symbol of sanctimonious wisdom and piety , while wine is the symbol of gay and free truth . ) Most of the epithets and com- parisons applied by Rabelais to spiritual things have what one might call an edible character . The author ...
... symbol of sanctimonious wisdom and piety , while wine is the symbol of gay and free truth . ) Most of the epithets and com- parisons applied by Rabelais to spiritual things have what one might call an edible character . The author ...
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... symbols of individual destiny , while instead it was precisely the people's destiny that was revealed in them , indissolubly linked to earth and permeated by the cosmic principle ... symbol of a phase of life through which 252 CHAPTER THREE.
... symbols of individual destiny , while instead it was precisely the people's destiny that was revealed in them , indissolubly linked to earth and permeated by the cosmic principle ... symbol of a phase of life through which 252 CHAPTER THREE.
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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