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... relative to the world ; the world is seen anew , no less ( and perhaps more )
profoundly than when seen from the serious standpoint . Therefore , laughter is
just as admissible in great literature , posing universal problems , as seriousness
.
... relative to the world ; the world is seen anew , no less ( and perhaps more )
profoundly than when seen from the serious standpoint . Therefore , laughter is
just as admissible in great literature , posing universal problems , as seriousness
.
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin. another striking
peculiarity : its indissoluble and essential relation to freedom . We have seen that
this laughter was absolutely unofficial but nevertheless legalized . The rights of
the ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin. another striking
peculiarity : its indissoluble and essential relation to freedom . We have seen that
this laughter was absolutely unofficial but nevertheless legalized . The rights of
the ...
Page 446
They are based , as we have seen , on a local provincial conflict ( almost a family
quarrel ) of the Loire communities with Antoine Rabelais ' neighbor , Sainte -
Marthe . The arena is the limited ground of Devinière ' s immediate neighborhood
.
They are based , as we have seen , on a local provincial conflict ( almost a family
quarrel ) of the Loire communities with Antoine Rabelais ' neighbor , Sainte -
Marthe . The arena is the limited ground of Devinière ' s immediate neighborhood
.
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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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