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... principle , that is , images of the human body with its food , drink , defecation , and sexual life , plays a predominant role . Images of the body are offered , moreover , in an extremely exaggerated form . Rabelais was proclaimed by ...
... principle , that is , images of the human body with its food , drink , defecation , and sexual life , plays a predominant role . Images of the body are offered , moreover , in an extremely exaggerated form . Rabelais was proclaimed by ...
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... principle is a triumphant , festive principle , it is a " banquet for all the world . " This character is preserved to a considerable de- gree in Renaissance literature , and most fully , of course , in Rabe- lais . The essential principle ...
... principle is a triumphant , festive principle , it is a " banquet for all the world . " This character is preserved to a considerable de- gree in Renaissance literature , and most fully , of course , in Rabe- lais . The essential principle ...
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... principle is typical of Renaissance realism . The ever - growing , inexhaustible , ever - laughing principle which uncrowns and renews is combined with its opposite : the petty , inert " material principle " of class so- ciety . To ...
... principle is typical of Renaissance realism . The ever - growing , inexhaustible , ever - laughing principle which uncrowns and renews is combined with its opposite : the petty , inert " material principle " of class so- ciety . To ...
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