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... linked with such celebrations.4 Its laughter was both am- bivalent and festive . It was the entire recreational literature of the Middle Ages . ) Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval ...
... linked with such celebrations.4 Its laughter was both am- bivalent and festive . It was the entire recreational literature of the Middle Ages . ) Celebrations of a carnival type represented a considerable part of the life of medieval ...
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... linked to it can raise no doubts whatever . But how can our term grotesque realism be justified ? We can offer only a preliminary answer to this question here . The characteristic traits which mark the sharp difference of medieval and ...
... linked to it can raise no doubts whatever . But how can our term grotesque realism be justified ? We can offer only a preliminary answer to this question here . The characteristic traits which mark the sharp difference of medieval and ...
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... linked to the mouth ( to the teeth and the gullet ) . These are some of the central images of the popular - festive sys- tem . The exaggeration of the mouth is the fundamental traditional method of rendering external comic features , as ...
... linked to the mouth ( to the teeth and the gullet ) . These are some of the central images of the popular - festive sys- tem . The exaggeration of the mouth is the fundamental traditional method of rendering external comic features , as ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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