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Page 93
... truth . At a time when all life was built within the conventional frameworks of caste , prerogative , scholastic science and hierarchy , truth was localized according to these frameworks ; it was relatively feudal , scholastic , etc ...
... truth . At a time when all life was built within the conventional frameworks of caste , prerogative , scholastic science and hierarchy , truth was localized according to these frameworks ; it was relatively feudal , scholastic , etc ...
Page 94
... truth ; it helped to uncover this truth and to give it an internal form . And this form was achieved and defended during thousands of years in its very depths and in its popular - festive images . Laughter showed the world anew in its ...
... truth ; it helped to uncover this truth and to give it an internal form . And this form was achieved and defended during thousands of years in its very depths and in its popular - festive images . Laughter showed the world anew in its ...
Page 285
... truth can be said only in the atmosphere of the banquet , only in table talk . Outside all con- siderations of prudence , such an atmosphere and such a tone corre- sponded to the very essence of truth as Rabelais understood it : a truth ...
... truth can be said only in the atmosphere of the banquet , only in table talk . Outside all con- siderations of prudence , such an atmosphere and such a tone corre- sponded to the very essence of truth as Rabelais understood it : a truth ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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