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folk culture of humor , which has found in his works its greatest literary expression
. Rabelais ' illuminative role in this respect is of the greatest importance . His
novel must serve as a key to the immense treasury of folk humor which as yet has
...
folk culture of humor , which has found in his works its greatest literary expression
. Rabelais ' illuminative role in this respect is of the greatest importance . His
novel must serve as a key to the immense treasury of folk humor which as yet has
...
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However , the immediate object of our study is not the culture of folk humor but
the work of Rabelais . The sphere of folk humor is boundless and , as we have
said , presents a great variety of manifestations . As far as this culture is
concerned ...
However , the immediate object of our study is not the culture of folk humor but
the work of Rabelais . The sphere of folk humor is boundless and , as we have
said , presents a great variety of manifestations . As far as this culture is
concerned ...
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But first of all it is necessary to understand the nature of folk humor in bygone
years , to grasp its philosophy , its universalism , its ambivalence , and its link with
time . All of these have been almost entirely lost in modern humor . The fact that ...
But first of all it is necessary to understand the nature of folk humor in bygone
years , to grasp its philosophy , its universalism , its ambivalence , and its link with
time . All of these have been almost entirely lost in modern humor . The fact that ...
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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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