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... grotesque is the mouth . It dominates all else . The grotesque face is actually reduced to the gaping mouth ; the other features are only a frame encasing this wide - open bodily abyss . The grotesque body , as we have often stressed , is a ...
... grotesque is the mouth . It dominates all else . The grotesque face is actually reduced to the gaping mouth ; the other features are only a frame encasing this wide - open bodily abyss . The grotesque body , as we have often stressed , is a ...
Page 318
... body's limited space or into the body's depths . Moun- tains and abysses , such is the relief of the grotesque body ; or speak- ing in architectural terms , towers and subterranean passages . Grotesque images may , of course , present ...
... body's limited space or into the body's depths . Moun- tains and abysses , such is the relief of the grotesque body ; or speak- ing in architectural terms , towers and subterranean passages . Grotesque images may , of course , present ...
Page 347
... grotesque body . Both in literature and pictorial art , the body of mixed parts and the strangest anatomical fantasies , the free play with the human limbs and interior organs were ... grotesque body . THE GROTESQUE IMAGE OF THE BODY 347.
... grotesque body . Both in literature and pictorial art , the body of mixed parts and the strangest anatomical fantasies , the free play with the human limbs and interior organs were ... grotesque body . THE GROTESQUE IMAGE OF THE BODY 347.
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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