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Page 62
... essential difference in the appreciation of Rabelais ' writings in the sixteenth century and in the years that followed . Contemporaries understood this one grand style , while men of the next two centuries began to consider it as some ...
... essential difference in the appreciation of Rabelais ' writings in the sixteenth century and in the years that followed . Contemporaries understood this one grand style , while men of the next two centuries began to consider it as some ...
Page 66
... essential forms of the truth concerning the world as a whole , concerning history and man ; it is a peculiar point of view relative to the world ; the world is seen anew , no less ( and perhaps more ) profoundly than when seen from the ...
... essential forms of the truth concerning the world as a whole , concerning history and man ; it is a peculiar point of view relative to the world ; the world is seen anew , no less ( and perhaps more ) profoundly than when seen from the ...
Page 67
... essential cannot be comical . Neither can history and persons representing it - kings , generals , heroes - be shown in a comic aspect . The sphere of the comic is narrow and specific ( private and social vices ) ; the essential truth ...
... essential cannot be comical . Neither can history and persons representing it - kings , generals , heroes - be shown in a comic aspect . The sphere of the comic is narrow and specific ( private and social vices ) ; the essential truth ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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