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Page 115
... typical char- acter , commentators began to look for a specific individual . Of course popular - festive laughter admits allusions to distinct personages . But these allusions are only an overtone of the gro- tesque images , whereas the ...
... typical char- acter , commentators began to look for a specific individual . Of course popular - festive laughter admits allusions to distinct personages . But these allusions are only an overtone of the gro- tesque images , whereas the ...
Page 186
... typical seal . Pliny's praise of flax is purely rhetorical . Genetically speaking , rhetoric is related to the marketplace but nothing has remained of the marketplace in Pliny's text ; it is the product of refined cul- ture . Rabelais ...
... typical seal . Pliny's praise of flax is purely rhetorical . Genetically speaking , rhetoric is related to the marketplace but nothing has remained of the marketplace in Pliny's text ; it is the product of refined cul- ture . Rabelais ...
Page 328
... typical grotesque hyperbola ) ; Saint Pansard ( St. Paunch- man ) and Mardi Gras belong to this gay race . Saint Pansard's ironic name was associated with carnival , and King Carnival , himself , is related to the family of fat paunches ...
... typical grotesque hyperbola ) ; Saint Pansard ( St. Paunch- man ) and Mardi Gras belong to this gay race . Saint Pansard's ironic name was associated with carnival , and King Carnival , himself , is related to the family of fat paunches ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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