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... influence was exercised in this field by Sterne , who in a certain sense is even considered the founder of the new genre . As to the direct influence of folk spectacles and carnival forms , which were still alive though degenerate , it ...
... influence was exercised in this field by Sterne , who in a certain sense is even considered the founder of the new genre . As to the direct influence of folk spectacles and carnival forms , which were still alive though degenerate , it ...
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... influence and by the number of imitations inspired by his work . Nearly all the sixteenth - century prose writers after Rabelais ( or more correctly speaking , after the publication of the first two volumes of his novels ) , Bonaventure ...
... influence and by the number of imitations inspired by his work . Nearly all the sixteenth - century prose writers after Rabelais ( or more correctly speaking , after the publication of the first two volumes of his novels ) , Bonaventure ...
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... influence on all medieval works of fantasy . We also find this direct or indirect influence in Rabelais ' novel . Let us briefly recall the history of this tradition . The first collector of tales about the wonders of India was Ctesias ...
... influence on all medieval works of fantasy . We also find this direct or indirect influence in Rabelais ' novel . Let us briefly recall the history of this tradition . The first collector of tales about the wonders of India was Ctesias ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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