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Page 95
... serious tone and confidence in the truth of laughter had a spontaneous , elemental character . It was under- stood that fear never lurks behind laughter ( which does not build stakes ) and that hypocrisy and lies never laugh but wear a ...
... serious tone and confidence in the truth of laughter had a spontaneous , elemental character . It was under- stood that fear never lurks behind laughter ( which does not build stakes ) and that hypocrisy and lies never laugh but wear a ...
Page 96
... serious and the laughing aspect , coexisted in their consciousness . This co- existence was strikingly reflected in thirteenth- and fourteenth- century illuminated manuscripts , for instance , in the legendaries , that is , the ...
... serious and the laughing aspect , coexisted in their consciousness . This co- existence was strikingly reflected in thirteenth- and fourteenth- century illuminated manuscripts , for instance , in the legendaries , that is , the ...
Page 134
... serious parts of Rabelais ' novel ( or those which appear serious to him ) . He leaves laughter aside , as nonhistorical and unchanging . Febvre ignores the comic aspect of the world , evolved during hundreds and thousands of years in ...
... serious parts of Rabelais ' novel ( or those which appear serious to him ) . He leaves laughter aside , as nonhistorical and unchanging . Febvre ignores the comic aspect of the world , evolved during hundreds and thousands of years in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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