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Page 62
... positive pole takes place . When the grotesque , is used to illustrate an abstract idea , its nature is inevitably dis- torted . The essence of the grotesque is precisely to present a con- tradictory and double - faced fullness of life ...
... positive pole takes place . When the grotesque , is used to illustrate an abstract idea , its nature is inevitably dis- torted . The essence of the grotesque is precisely to present a con- tradictory and double - faced fullness of life ...
Page 270
... positive form . Here , too , freedom and im- punity are inseparable from the positive content of all the images of this episode . These carnivalesque forms must not surprise us . Even the great economic and sociopolitical changes of ...
... positive form . Here , too , freedom and im- punity are inseparable from the positive content of all the images of this episode . These carnivalesque forms must not surprise us . Even the great economic and sociopolitical changes of ...
Page 433
... positive elements do not seek a separate , private , and static expression . The dual tone never wants to halt the spinning wheel , to find and outline the top and the bottom , the front and the back ; on the contrary , it marks their ...
... positive elements do not seek a separate , private , and static expression . The dual tone never wants to halt the spinning wheel , to find and outline the top and the bottom , the front and the back ; on the contrary , it marks their ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries drink earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture forms Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell hierarchy Hippocrates historic human humor imagery important king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages nature novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words