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Page 248
The deeply ambivalent nature of the wish for death is disclosed . Describing this
gradual change of tone , Goethe quite correctly broadens its nature : “ Just as in
other languages curses and obscene words are often used as expressions of joy
...
The deeply ambivalent nature of the wish for death is disclosed . Describing this
gradual change of tone , Goethe quite correctly broadens its nature : “ Just as in
other languages curses and obscene words are often used as expressions of joy
...
Page 409
Death is an ambivalent image for Rabelais and for the popular sources from
which he drew his material ; therefore , death can be gay . While depicting an
individual body in the throes of death , this image also shows a glimpse of
another ...
Death is an ambivalent image for Rabelais and for the popular sources from
which he drew his material ; therefore , death can be gay . While depicting an
individual body in the throes of death , this image also shows a glimpse of
another ...
Page 430
The eulogy of the clown Triboulet and the blazoned parodical litanies of Friar
John and Panurge disclose the deepest essence of this genre , its dual face ,
complete ambivalence , and contradictory fullness . Finally , blazoning tones
pervade ...
The eulogy of the clown Triboulet and the blazoned parodical litanies of Friar
John and Panurge disclose the deepest essence of this genre , its dual face ,
complete ambivalence , and contradictory fullness . Finally , blazoning tones
pervade ...
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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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