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Page 87
In everything , in meaning and image , in the sound of sacred words , parody
discovered the Achilles ' heel that was open to derision , some trait which
permitted linkage to the bodily lower stratum . The unofficial legend of many
saints was ...
In everything , in meaning and image , in the sound of sacred words , parody
discovered the Achilles ' heel that was open to derision , some trait which
permitted linkage to the bodily lower stratum . The unofficial legend of many
saints was ...
Page 126
In relation to this destroying and generating lower stratum , Hugo offers the
grotesque image of a serpent inside man ; " these are his bowels . ” Generally
speaking , Hugo understood correctly the role of the lower stratum as the
organizing ...
In relation to this destroying and generating lower stratum , Hugo offers the
grotesque image of a serpent inside man ; " these are his bowels . ” Generally
speaking , Hugo understood correctly the role of the lower stratum as the
organizing ...
Page 378
Thus it is not surprising that the swab episode , with its constant movement from
top to bottom , brings us finally into hell . Rabelais ... In the swab episode bliss
does not start on the top level but in the lower stratum , in the anal region .
Thus it is not surprising that the swab episode , with its constant movement from
top to bottom , brings us finally into hell . Rabelais ... In the swab episode bliss
does not start on the top level but in the lower stratum , in the anal region .
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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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| Title | Rabelais and His World A Midland book ; MB 341 Volume 341 of Midland books |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Contributor | Michael Holquist |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253348307, 9780253348302 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Medieval |
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