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... symbols of the carnival idiom are filled with this pathos of change and renewal , with the sense of the gay relativity of prevailing truths and authorities . We find here a characteristic logic , the peculiar logic of the " inside out ...
... symbols of the carnival idiom are filled with this pathos of change and renewal , with the sense of the gay relativity of prevailing truths and authorities . We find here a characteristic logic , the peculiar logic of the " inside out ...
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... symbols of individual destiny , while instead it was precisely the people's destiny that was revealed in them ... symbolism in popular - festive forms , we will quote two of his comments from his talks with Eckermann . Concerning ...
... symbols of individual destiny , while instead it was precisely the people's destiny that was revealed in them ... symbolism in popular - festive forms , we will quote two of his comments from his talks with Eckermann . Concerning ...
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... symbols of fear defeated by laughter . All of them are carnivalesque dummies representing in a more or less harmless form the old , receding world . At times these are merely ridiculous monsters , and at other times they symbolize the ...
... symbols of fear defeated by laughter . All of them are carnivalesque dummies representing in a more or less harmless form the old , receding world . At times these are merely ridiculous monsters , and at other times they symbolize the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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