How To Use Rabelais In A Sentence
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Nay, besides these, many societies that make a great figure in the world are reflected on in this book; which caused Rabelais to study to be dark, and even bedaub it with many loose expressions, that he might not be thought to have any other design than to droll; in a manner bewraying his book that his enemies might not bite it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Always the perfect aide, Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago.
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Rabelais's Gargantua is a prime example of absurdity as literary device (compare the structure of the great "arse-wiping" scene to the "Yorkshiremen" sketch above).
Strange Fiction 4
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Rabelaisianism they are obsessing the minds of every one with a matter which after all is only one aspect of life?
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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I learnt concretely from his translation of Rabelais what Mikhail Bakhtin formulated as 'the image system of grotesque realism or the culture of popular laughter'; the importance of material and physical principles; the correspondence between the cosmic, social and physical elements; the overlapping of death and passions for rebirth; and the laughter that subverts hierarchical relationships.
Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture
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Rabelais continually returns to the indolence and gulosity of the friars.
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All Mrs. Whirtle's audience agreed with one or more of these propositions except Professor Giblet, who accepted all three saving and excepting the term "synthetical" as applied to Rabelais 'mind.
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
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It would be as easy and as profitable a problem to solve the Rabelaisian riddle of the bombinating chimaera with its potential or hypothetical faculty of deriving sustenance from a course of diet on second intentions, as to read the riddle of Shakespeare's design in the procreation of this yet more mysterious and magnificent monster of a play.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Ask one of them of what religion he is, he scoffingly replies, a philosopher, a Galenist, an [6648] Averroist, and with Rabelais a physician, a peripatetic, an epicure.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It remains for our learned people to resolve, as was done by Luther, Bacon and Erasamus, Rabelais and Montaigne.
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The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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ELG talked of Rabelais and ate like Gargantua: mulligatawny soup, fried whiting, brill with shrimps, pork cutlets, to mates farcies, boiled turkey in celery sauce, curried hare, roast pheasant with all the trimmings.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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In Don's Party, chauvinism, Rabelaisian humor, and drunken sexuality reflected by the male characters in the play are three typical "ocker" characteristics.
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In speech, the old-time 'shellback' was notoriously reticent -- almost inarticulate; but in song he found self-expression, and all the romance and poetry of the sea are breathed into his shanties, where simple childlike sentimentality alternates with the Rabelaisian humour of the grown man.
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
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Rabelaisian ditty, a gross amazing jest, a chuckle of deep Satyric humour; -- and the monstrous "thickness" of Life, its friendly aplomb and nonchalance, its grotesque irreverence, its shy shrewd common-sense, its tough fibres, and portentous indifference to "distinction"; tumbles us over in the mud -- for all our "aloofness" -- and roars over us, like a romping bull-calf!
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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Prioris was included among the finest musicians of his day by writers such as Crétin, Eloy d'Amerval, Jean Daniel and François Rabelais, and he appears among the second group of composers to whom tribute is paid in Pierre Moulu's motet Mater floreat.
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'Sileni' of the old French apothecaries, as described by Rabelais, so decorated with wondrous figures, harpies, satyrs, horned geese and bridled hares, that men were incredulous, and doubted that precious ambergris, musk and gems were to be found within.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Think of Chad Morgan's Rabelaisian burlesques.
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This purpose and the writerly comic principle underlying Rabelais's narratives, a principle we shall refer to as ‘privative’ evil, are the subjects we shall focus on in the remainder of this study.
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The old Rabelaisianism was toned down to something like decency and at least the grosser vulgarities of the music-hall stage were banned by common consent.
The Soul of the War
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Rabelaisianism of his more private conversation, for his frank interest in, his eternal preoccupation with, aspects of life and human activity which, though essential to the divine purpose, are not openly recognized as such -- even by Daniel Poveys.
The Old Wives' Tale
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And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Reveillon by St. Gervais) -- I say if any of these comforters of the living anywhere grace the earth, you shall find my master Rabelais giving you the very innermost and animating spirit of all these good things, their utter flavour and their saving power in the quintessential words of his incontestably regalian lips.
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
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Rabelais’s Gargantua is an example of what’s known as the ‘carnivalesque’, a style of literature in which chaos and humour present an opportunity to challenge dominant beliefs and turn all hierarchies on their heads.
Sexing The Cherry « Tales from the Reading Room
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Rabelaisianism was obviously the expression of that vital sap which, not having been permitted to inform his work, had been driven inward and left thereto ferment.
1601
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Rabelaisian characters
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By the sheer multitude of paradoxical formulations in his Gargantua et Pantagruel, particularly clustered in the Tiers livre, Rabelais offers a wonderful anthol - ogy of Renaissance paradoxy.
LITERARY PARADOX
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Always the perfect aide, Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago.
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And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Finally, about Humanism, I would have thought that my use of the word "exorcise" suggested that Rabelais was indeed strongly attracted, and that the only way he could free himself from its trammels was by writing as he did.
The Rabelais Story
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Rabelais ' aesthetics in Pantagrue and Gargantua, based on the humanism, overturns the Christian orthodox idea and reconstructs the humanist outlook on life and value.
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C'est dans cette anecdote qu'il faudrait, d'après certains auteurs, voir l'origine d'une expression bien connue: nous voulons parler du "quart d'heure de Rabelais.
French Conversation and Composition
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He _is_ a "Rabelais de bonne compagnie," and from the exactly opposite point of view he might be called a Voltaire or a Sterne _de bonne compagnie_ likewise.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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I think I should go very well just above your head, Mr Box, between Patterson’s Pathology of the Goitre and Rabelaisianism.
The Vesuvius Club
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The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples).
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Café Rabelais is a likable, yeomanly restaurant that stays true to its mission and keeps trying to improve.
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Circle, what the old German _lanzknecht_, in Rabelais, said of the
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Skelton, a contemporary of the French Rabelais, seems to us a weak English portrait of that great author; like him a priest, a buffoon, a satirist, and a lampooner, but unlike him in that he has given us no English _Gargantua_ and _Pantagruel_ to illustrate his age.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction