Giants in Those Days: Folklore, Ancient History, and NationalismUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1989 - 456 pages "'Traditional' (i.e. medieval) gigantology, both scholarly and - to the extent that it existed - popular, was rooted in biblical and classical texts, and portrayed giants as depraved, evil, and godless: very different from what we see in Rabelais. Dante developed them as denizens of Hell. Giants were primarily antediluvian, and were generally understood as a race distinct from (or debased from) humanity. Key biblical giants included the nephilim (offspring of the 'sons of God and daughters of men' in Genesis 6) and the anakim (indigenous opposition to the settlement of Canaan in Numbers and Deuteronomy). |
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... prologue of Pantagruel , Alcofrybas's distinctive voice had depicted him as an Annian / Lemairian writer eager to acquire belief in the absolute , " scriptural " veracity of his chronicle . How- ever , Rabelais had undermined the ...
... prologue of Pantagruel , Alcofrybas's distinctive voice had depicted him as an Annian / Lemairian writer eager to acquire belief in the absolute , " scriptural " veracity of his chronicle . How- ever , Rabelais had undermined the ...
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... prologue since Leo Spitzer . As Duval shows , two humble points of grammar ( the meaning of the phrase combien que and the antecedent of the pronoun le ) exclude all possibility of such a " contradictory " stance on the issue of ...
... prologue since Leo Spitzer . As Duval shows , two humble points of grammar ( the meaning of the phrase combien que and the antecedent of the pronoun le ) exclude all possibility of such a " contradictory " stance on the issue of ...
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... prologue to Gargantua and the stanza by Salel added to Pantagruel , see Defaux , " D'un problème l'autre❞ 210-13 . Duval's point that the burlesque diction of the prologue would not have affected the original audience's conviction ...
... prologue to Gargantua and the stanza by Salel added to Pantagruel , see Defaux , " D'un problème l'autre❞ 210-13 . Duval's point that the burlesque diction of the prologue would not have affected the original audience's conviction ...
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Annius of Viterbo the Flood | 98 |
4 | 116 |
Rabelaiss Two Gigantologies | 185 |
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