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All that is positive is placed beyond the sphere of laughter and represents an
abstract idea . Carnival forms serve a different role in rococo literature . Here the
gay positive tone of laughter is preserved . But everything is reduced to “
chamber ...
All that is positive is placed beyond the sphere of laughter and represents an
abstract idea . Carnival forms serve a different role in rococo literature . Here the
gay positive tone of laughter is preserved . But everything is reduced to “
chamber ...
Page 270
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин. world . Exterior
freedom and impunity are inseparable from the inner positive meaning of these
forms and their philosophical content . Tappecoue ' s carnivalesque
dismemberment ...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин. world . Exterior
freedom and impunity are inseparable from the inner positive meaning of these
forms and their philosophical content . Tappecoue ' s carnivalesque
dismemberment ...
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27 The dual tone of the people ' s speech is never torn away from this whole nor
from the becoming ; this is why the negative and the positive elements do not
seek a separate , private , and static expression . The dual tone never wants to
halt ...
27 The dual tone of the people ' s speech is never torn away from this whole nor
from the becoming ; this is why the negative and the positive elements do not
seek a separate , private , and static expression . The dual tone never wants to
halt ...
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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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