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... symbol itself . The swab is one of the widespread images of scatological literature , of anecdotes , familiar colloquial genres , curses , billingsgate meta- phors , and analogies . Neither is this image new in literature . After ...
... symbol itself . The swab is one of the widespread images of scatological literature , of anecdotes , familiar colloquial genres , curses , billingsgate meta- phors , and analogies . Neither is this image new in literature . After ...
Page 171
... symbol of sanctimonious wisdom and piety , while wine is the symbol of gay and free truth . ) Most of the epithets and com- parisons applied by Rabelais to spiritual things have what one might call an edible character . The author ...
... symbol of sanctimonious wisdom and piety , while wine is the symbol of gay and free truth . ) Most of the epithets and com- parisons applied by Rabelais to spiritual things have what one might call an edible character . The author ...
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... symbols of individual destiny , while instead it was precisely the people's destiny that was revealed in them , indissolubly linked to earth and permeated by the cosmic principle ... symbol of a phase of life through which 252 CHAPTER THREE.
... symbols of individual destiny , while instead it was precisely the people's destiny that was revealed in them , indissolubly linked to earth and permeated by the cosmic principle ... symbol of a phase of life through which 252 CHAPTER THREE.
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