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... true nature of human festivity was betrayed and dis- torted . But this true festive character was indestructible ; it had to be tolerated and even legalized outside the official sphere and had to be turned over to the popular sphere of ...
... true nature of human festivity was betrayed and dis- torted . But this true festive character was indestructible ; it had to be tolerated and even legalized outside the official sphere and had to be turned over to the popular sphere of ...
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... true folk festival , completely independent of Church and State but tolerated by them . This was true of the Roman carnival described by Goethe in his famous sketch in 1788 ; and true also of the 1895 carnival in that city , pictured by ...
... true folk festival , completely independent of Church and State but tolerated by them . This was true of the Roman carnival described by Goethe in his famous sketch in 1788 ; and true also of the 1895 carnival in that city , pictured by ...
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... true of his medical nomenclature , for example . True , he widely used neologisms as well as Greek and Latin terms , but he also borrowed a great deal from oral sources of the vernacular . He often used side by side a scientific ...
... true of his medical nomenclature , for example . True , he widely used neologisms as well as Greek and Latin terms , but he also borrowed a great deal from oral sources of the vernacular . He often used side by side a scientific ...
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