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They remain ambiv - . alent and contradictory ; they are ugly , monstrous ,
hideous from the point of view of “ classic ” aesthetics , that is , the aesthetics of
the ready - made and the completed . The new historic sense that penetrates
them gives ...
They remain ambiv - . alent and contradictory ; they are ugly , monstrous ,
hideous from the point of view of “ classic ” aesthetics , that is , the aesthetics of
the ready - made and the completed . The new historic sense that penetrates
them gives ...
Page 243
Friar John gives him a firm answer : " I quite understand that , but time softens
everything . No marble and porphyry but suffers old age and decay . If you have
not at present reached this stage , then a few years hence , I shall hear you ...
Friar John gives him a firm answer : " I quite understand that , but time softens
everything . No marble and porphyry but suffers old age and decay . If you have
not at present reached this stage , then a few years hence , I shall hear you ...
Page 299
He gives up eating and drinking and lies motionless on his bed . In order to cure
him , one of his relatives pretends that he too is dead and gives orders to be laid
out on a table in the lawyer ' s room . All weep for the “ dead ” relative . Then he ...
He gives up eating and drinking and lies motionless on his bed . In order to cure
him , one of his relatives pretends that he too is dead and gives orders to be laid
out on a table in the lawyer ' s room . All weep for the “ dead ” relative . Then he ...
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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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