Rabelais and His World, Volume 10This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation. |
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... earth , the contact with earth as an element that swal- lows up and gives birth at the same time . To degrade is to bury , to sow , and to kill simultaneously , in order to bring forth some- thing more and better . To degrade also means ...
... earth , the contact with earth as an element that swal- lows up and gives birth at the same time . To degrade is to bury , to sow , and to kill simultaneously , in order to bring forth some- thing more and better . To degrade also means ...
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... earth's fertility . Here we have the combination of killing and birth with which we are familiar . Death , the dead body , blood as a seed buried in the earth , rising for another life - this is one of the oldest and most wide- spread ...
... earth's fertility . Here we have the combination of killing and birth with which we are familiar . Death , the dead body , blood as a seed buried in the earth , rising for another life - this is one of the oldest and most wide- spread ...
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... earth , and any part separated from the earth tends to move back to the center along a straight line ; in other words , it falls . Fire moves in the opposite direction ; it continually tends upward , therefore away from the center ...
... earth , and any part separated from the earth tends to move back to the center along a straight line ; in other words , it falls . Fire moves in the opposite direction ; it continually tends upward , therefore away from the center ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
Copyright | |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect Bakhtin banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character church comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor ideological imagery important interpretation king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words