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- considerably more erudite in tone. His literary legacy is such that the word Rabelaisian designates something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance...
- and presents European realities in a new and strange light. While the Rabelaisian vocabulary demonstrates a technical mastery of nautical knowledge, the...
- describes the story as lacking the burlesque humor of Tortilla Flat, the Rabelaisian humor of "St. Katy the Virgin," the folk humor of The Grapes of Wrath...
- Danish biography comments of her domestic life: "The scene is classic Rabelaisian more than anything else, harkening back to the Middle Ages when people...
- writing, but Harington was inclined to overstep the mark in his somewhat Rabelaisian and occasionally risqué pieces. His attempt at a translation of Ariosto's...
- figure in the world of the arts. In a modern account, he was described as Rabelaisian, bawdy, witty, robust, wild, lusty, protean, lecherous, luscious, and...
- Crowley. Hidden Publishing. ISBN 978-0955523700. Gauna, Max (1996). The Rabelaisian Mythologies. Fairleigh ****inson University Press. ISBN 0-8386-3631-4...
- goodness of the nose". Sterne had written an earlier piece called A Rabelaisian Fragment that indicates his familiarity with the work of the French monk...
- New York Times obituary described him via a character sketch: He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock...
- whom Donleavy once described in an interview as a "saint", though of a Rabelaisian kind. Correctly or incorrectly, his initial works are sometimes grouped...