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... gives these images a new meaning but keeps intact their traditional contents : copulation , pregnancy , birth , growth , old age , disintegration , dismemberment . All these in their direct / material aspect are the main element in the ...
... gives these images a new meaning but keeps intact their traditional contents : copulation , pregnancy , birth , growth , old age , disintegration , dismemberment . All these in their direct / material aspect are the main element in the ...
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... gives a broad interpretation of grotesque imagery . He finds it in preclassical antiquity ( the hydra , the harpies , the cyclopes , and other archaic images ) ; he further places in this category all postantique literature , starting ...
... gives a broad interpretation of grotesque imagery . He finds it in preclassical antiquity ( the hydra , the harpies , the cyclopes , and other archaic images ) ; he further places in this category all postantique literature , starting ...
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. and imagines that he is dead . 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 ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin. and imagines that he is dead . 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 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries drink earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell hierarchy Hippocrates historic human humor imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages nature novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words