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... novel " The Ex- travagant Shepherd " ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially rational ...
... novel " The Ex- travagant Shepherd " ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days . But in spite of this superficially rational ...
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... novel belongs to the eighteenth century , the roman à clef was written throughout the seventeenth century . Such was the Latin novel Satyricon ( London , 1603 ) of the English writer John Barclay , which enjoyed a great success in the ...
... novel belongs to the eighteenth century , the roman à clef was written throughout the seventeenth century . Such was the Latin novel Satyricon ( London , 1603 ) of the English writer John Barclay , which enjoyed a great success in the ...
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... novel in which speech has in most cases only one single meaning and is nearly always completely serious . We must seek this last word in the popular - festive , ele- mental imagery in which these images are immersed . Here they never ...
... novel in which speech has in most cases only one single meaning and is nearly always completely serious . We must seek this last word in the popular - festive , ele- mental imagery in which these images are immersed . Here they never ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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