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Page 85
... of epitaphs , medical prescriptions , blessings , prayers , and monastic rules
are scattered through this work . popular in the Middle Ages . Finally , there were
RABELAIS IN THE HISTORY OF LAUGHTER 85.
... of epitaphs , medical prescriptions , blessings , prayers , and monastic rules
are scattered through this work . popular in the Middle Ages . Finally , there were
RABELAIS IN THE HISTORY OF LAUGHTER 85.
Page 222
A carnivalesque atmosphere permeates the entire episode ; it ties into one
grotesque knot the slaughter , the dismemberment and disemboweling , bodily
life , abundance , fat , the banquet , merry improprieties , and finally childbirth .
A carnivalesque atmosphere permeates the entire episode ; it ties into one
grotesque knot the slaughter , the dismemberment and disemboweling , bodily
life , abundance , fat , the banquet , merry improprieties , and finally childbirth .
Page 358
Panurge praises the virtues of “ greensauce " in just this manner : . . . finally , it set
the belly in apple - pie order , so a man could belch , fart , poop , piddle , shit ,
sneeze , sob , cough , throw up , yawn , puff , inhale , exhale , snore , snort ,
sweat ...
Panurge praises the virtues of “ greensauce " in just this manner : . . . finally , it set
the belly in apple - pie order , so a man could belch , fart , poop , piddle , shit ,
sneeze , sob , cough , throw up , yawn , puff , inhale , exhale , snore , snort ,
sweat ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
Two The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World Volume 177 of M.I.T.: Literary criticism Volume 177 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass: MIT paperback series |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Publisher | M.I.T. Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0262055031, 9780262055031 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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