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nected with folk tradition of humor . Pulci compared the battlefield of Ronceveaux
to “ a kettle filled with blood - stew of heads , legs and other members of the
human body . " 32 These images can already be found in the epics of the
minstrels .
nected with folk tradition of humor . Pulci compared the battlefield of Ronceveaux
to “ a kettle filled with blood - stew of heads , legs and other members of the
human body . " 32 These images can already be found in the epics of the
minstrels .
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Not only have all conventions been dropped , but all laws “ both human and
divine ” are silenced . Life has been lifted out of its routine , the web of
conventions has been torn ; all the official hierarchic limits have been swept away
. The plague ...
Not only have all conventions been dropped , but all laws “ both human and
divine ” are silenced . Life has been lifted out of its routine , the web of
conventions has been torn ; all the official hierarchic limits have been swept away
. The plague ...
Page 345
This manuscript contains interesting miniatures representing typical grotesque
human figures . Finally , the “ wonders " were incorporated in a poem , Le Roman
d ' Alexandre , composed in Alexandrian verse . Thus was this legend built and ...
This manuscript contains interesting miniatures representing typical grotesque
human figures . Finally , the “ wonders " were incorporated in a poem , Le Roman
d ' Alexandre , composed in Alexandrian verse . Thus was this legend built and ...
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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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