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14 According to Aristotle , a child does not begin to laugh before the fortieth day
after his birth ; only from that moment does it become a human being . Rabelais
and his contemporaries were also familiar with the saying of Pliny that only one ...
14 According to Aristotle , a child does not begin to laugh before the fortieth day
after his birth ; only from that moment does it become a human being . Rabelais
and his contemporaries were also familiar with the saying of Pliny that only one ...
Page 92
However , medieval laughter is not a subjective , individual and biological
consciousness of the uninterrupted flow of time . It is the social consciousness of
all the people . Man experiences this flow of time in the festive marketplace , in
the ...
However , medieval laughter is not a subjective , individual and biological
consciousness of the uninterrupted flow of time . It is the social consciousness of
all the people . Man experiences this flow of time in the festive marketplace , in
the ...
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True open seriousness fears neither parody , nor irony , nor any other form of
reduced laughter , for it is aware of being ... is the dialogue between Mozart and
Salieri after they have listened to the blind violinist : Salieri : And you can laugh ?
True open seriousness fears neither parody , nor irony , nor any other form of
reduced laughter , for it is aware of being ... is the dialogue between Mozart and
Salieri after they have listened to the blind violinist : Salieri : And you can laugh ?
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Contents
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
THREE PopularFestive Forms and Images in Rabelais | 196 |
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