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... humor , formed within the framework of bourgeois modern culture and aesthetics , were applied to this interpretation . We may therefore say without exaggeration that the profound originality expressed by the culture of folk humor in the ...
... humor , formed within the framework of bourgeois modern culture and aesthetics , were applied to this interpretation . We may therefore say without exaggeration that the profound originality expressed by the culture of folk humor in the ...
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... humor was also examined ( A. Dieterich , H. Reich , F. Cornford ) . Folklorists performed a considerable task in the study of the origin and char- acter of various themes and symbols pertaining to the culture of folk humor . ( It is ...
... humor was also examined ( A. Dieterich , H. Reich , F. Cornford ) . Folklorists performed a considerable task in the study of the origin and char- acter of various themes and symbols pertaining to the culture of folk humor . ( It is ...
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... humor in bygone years , to grasp its philosophy , its universalism , its ambivalence , and its link with time . All of these have been almost entirely lost in modern humor . The fact that Febvre ignores this folk culture leads him to a ...
... humor in bygone years , to grasp its philosophy , its universalism , its ambivalence , and its link with time . All of these have been almost entirely lost in modern humor . The fact that Febvre ignores this folk culture leads him to 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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