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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... nature , entirely different from ready - made , completed being . They remain ambiv- alent and contradictory ; they are ugly , monstrous , hideous from the point of view of " classic " aesthetics , that is , the aesthetics of the ready ...
... nature , entirely different from ready - made , completed being . They remain ambiv- alent and contradictory ; they are ugly , monstrous , hideous from the point of view of " classic " aesthetics , that is , the aesthetics of the ready ...
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... nature " and are op- posed to the monolith of the Christian cult and ideology . It was precisely the one - sided character of official seriousness which led to the necessity of creating a vent for the second nature of man , for laughter ...
... nature " and are op- posed to the monolith of the Christian cult and ideology . It was precisely the one - sided character of official seriousness which led to the necessity of creating a vent for the second nature of man , for laughter ...
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... Nature . . . . Surrounded and embraced by it , we cannot emerge from it , nor penetrate deeper into it . Unwanted ... Nature " for Goethe has a deeply carnivalesque spirit . At the end of his life , 1828 , he wrote an additional ...
... Nature . . . . Surrounded and embraced by it , we cannot emerge from it , nor penetrate deeper into it . Unwanted ... Nature " for Goethe has a deeply carnivalesque spirit . At the end of his life , 1828 , he wrote an additional ...
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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