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... Rabelais was founded ( La Société des Etudes Rabelaisiennes ) . This is an important land- mark . The society was composed of the pupils and friends of the Rabelaisian scholar Abel Lefranc . It became the center of these studies not ...
... Rabelais was founded ( La Société des Etudes Rabelaisiennes ) . This is an important land- mark . The society was composed of the pupils and friends of the Rabelaisian scholar Abel Lefranc . It became the center of these studies not ...
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... Rabelais ' imagery and style . Veselovsky's interpretation largely determined the treatment of Rabelais in our university courses almost until our time . Until World War II Soviet literary critics did not change this situation ...
... Rabelais ' imagery and style . Veselovsky's interpretation largely determined the treatment of Rabelais in our university courses almost until our time . Until World War II Soviet literary critics did not change this situation ...
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... Rabelais and their importance in helping us to under- stand his work and the entire literature of the Renaissance.24 For Rabelais and his contemporaries the cries of Paris were not a mere document of life in the modern sense of the ...
... Rabelais and their importance in helping us to under- stand his work and the entire literature of the Renaissance.24 For Rabelais and his contemporaries the cries of Paris were not a mere document of life in the modern sense of the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries drink earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell hierarchy Hippocrates historic human humor imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages nature novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words