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... forms . These forms seemed to be interwoven as if giving birth to each other . The borderlines that divide the kingdoms of nature in the usual picture of the world were boldly infringed . Neither was there the usual static presenta ...
... forms . These forms seemed to be interwoven as if giving birth to each other . The borderlines that divide the kingdoms of nature in the usual picture of the world were boldly infringed . Neither was there the usual static presenta ...
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... forms . The latest development of this genre is considerably complex and contradictory . Generally speaking , two main lines of devel- opment can be traced . The first line is the modernist form ( Alfred Jarry ) , connected in various ...
... forms . The latest development of this genre is considerably complex and contradictory . Generally speaking , two main lines of devel- opment can be traced . The first line is the modernist form ( Alfred Jarry ) , connected in various ...
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... forms of comic speech was the so - called coq- à - l'âne , " from rooster to ass . " This is a genre of intentionally ab- surd verbal combinations , a form of completely liberated speech that ignores all norms , even those of elementary ...
... forms of comic speech was the so - called coq- à - l'âne , " from rooster to ass . " This is a genre of intentionally ab- surd verbal combinations , a form of completely liberated speech that ignores all norms , even those of elementary ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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