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Page 87
In everything , in meaning and image , in the sound of sacred words , parody
discovered the Achilles ' heel that was open to derision , some trait which
permitted linkage to the bodily lower stratum . The unofficial legend of many
saints was ...
In everything , in meaning and image , in the sound of sacred words , parody
discovered the Achilles ' heel that was open to derision , some trait which
permitted linkage to the bodily lower stratum . The unofficial legend of many
saints was ...
Page 126
In relation to this destroying and generating lower stratum , Hugo offers the
grotesque image of a serpent inside man ; " these are his bowels . " Generally
speaking , Hugo understood correctly the role of the lower stratum as the
organizing ...
In relation to this destroying and generating lower stratum , Hugo offers the
grotesque image of a serpent inside man ; " these are his bowels . " Generally
speaking , Hugo understood correctly the role of the lower stratum as the
organizing ...
Page 435
This process is represented in the images of the material bodily lower stratum ;
everything descends into the earth and the bodily grave in order to die and to be
reborn . This is why the downward movement pervades Rabelais ' entire imagery
...
This process is represented in the images of the material bodily lower stratum ;
everything descends into the earth and the bodily grave in order to die and to be
reborn . This is why the downward movement pervades Rabelais ' entire imagery
...
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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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