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On the one hand it became linked to all that was typical and common in everyday
life . On the other hand it was related to personal invective ; that is , it was
directed at one single , private person . The historical universal individuality
ceased to ...
On the one hand it became linked to all that was typical and common in everyday
life . On the other hand it was related to personal invective ; that is , it was
directed at one single , private person . The historical universal individuality
ceased to ...
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Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин. not typical ; all Nemo
' s revised versions have the obvious and frank character of an amusing game .
We have no reason to believe that the Nemo story in its different versions was in
...
Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин. not typical ; all Nemo
' s revised versions have the obvious and frank character of an amusing game .
We have no reason to believe that the Nemo story in its different versions was in
...
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We have here the typical grotesque picture of the world , in which the generating ,
devouring , and defecating body is fused with nature and with cosmic
phenomena : the Riphaean mountains sterile of imitation stone , the sea
pregnant with ...
We have here the typical grotesque picture of the world , in which the generating ,
devouring , and defecating body is fused with nature and with cosmic
phenomena : the Riphaean mountains sterile of imitation stone , the sea
pregnant with ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
Two The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World Volume 177 of M.I.T.: Literary criticism Volume 177 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass: MIT paperback series |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Михаил Михайлович Бахтин |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Publisher | M.I.T. Press, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0262055031, 9780262055031 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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