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Page 173
This masochism of gloomy calumniators is here a grotesque degradation of fear
and suffering , the two leading motives of medieval ideology . The image of
defecation from fear is a traditional debasement not of the coward only but of fear
itself ...
This masochism of gloomy calumniators is here a grotesque degradation of fear
and suffering , the two leading motives of medieval ideology . The image of
defecation from fear is a traditional debasement not of the coward only but of fear
itself ...
Page 174
One of the symptoms and mishaps of fear is that it usually opens the back door of
the rotunda where fecal guests await their turn to emerge . ( Book 4 , Chapter 67 )
Further , Rabelais tells the story of Pantolfe de la Cassina of Siena , who ...
One of the symptoms and mishaps of fear is that it usually opens the back door of
the rotunda where fecal guests await their turn to emerge . ( Book 4 , Chapter 67 )
Further , Rabelais tells the story of Pantolfe de la Cassina of Siena , who ...
Page 336
In the sphere of imagery cosmic fear ( as any other fear ) is defeated by laughter .
... are often interwoven with images of a parallel struggle in the individual body
against the memories of an agonizing birth and the fear of the throes of death .
In the sphere of imagery cosmic fear ( as any other fear ) is defeated by laughter .
... are often interwoven with images of a parallel struggle in the individual body
against the memories of an agonizing birth and the fear of the throes of death .
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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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