Table of Contents

FOREWORD Krystyna Pomorska

PROLOGUE Michael Holquist

INTRODUCTION

ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais
THREE Popular-Festive Forms and Images in Rabelais
FOUR Banquet Imagery in Rabelais
FIVE The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its Sources
SIX Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum
SEVEN Rabelais Images and His Time

INDEX

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Essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation