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... centuries of Rabelaisiana . The first historic - allegorical interpretation of Rabelais ' images was made in the sixteenth century . The well - known historian Jacques Auguste de Thou expressed in his biography the follow- ing opinion ...
... centuries of Rabelaisiana . The first historic - allegorical interpretation of Rabelais ' images was made in the sixteenth century . The well - known historian Jacques Auguste de Thou expressed in his biography the follow- ing opinion ...
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... century ) and led to the specific lim- itations of realism in the age of the Enlightenment . If the documentary novel belongs to the eighteenth century , the roman à clef was written throughout the seventeenth century . Such was the ...
... century ) and led to the specific lim- itations of realism in the age of the Enlightenment . If the documentary novel belongs to the eighteenth century , the roman à clef was written throughout the seventeenth century . Such was the ...
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... century , the last by Clément Jaquain in the sixteenth century . ( These are the cries of Rabelais ' time ) . There is considerable material belonging to the period between these two dates , especially to the first half of the fifteenth ...
... century , the last by Clément Jaquain in the sixteenth century . ( These are the cries of Rabelais ' time ) . There is considerable material belonging to the period between these two dates , especially to the first half of the fifteenth ...
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