Rabelais and His World, Volume 10This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation. |
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Page xvi
... Rabelais laughing because Bakhtin knows how Rabelais wrote his book and , in fact , writes one very much like it . Rabelais and His World is , of course , about the subversive openness of the Rabelaisian novel , but it is also a ...
... Rabelais laughing because Bakhtin knows how Rabelais wrote his book and , in fact , writes one very much like it . Rabelais and His World is , of course , about the subversive openness of the Rabelaisian novel , but it is also a ...
Page 129
... Rabelais was founded ( La Société des Etudes Rabelaisiennes ) . This is an important land- mark . The society was composed of the pupils and friends of the Rabelaisian scholar Abel Lefranc . It became the center of these studies not ...
... Rabelais was founded ( La Société des Etudes Rabelaisiennes ) . This is an important land- mark . The society was composed of the pupils and friends of the Rabelaisian scholar Abel Lefranc . It became the center of these studies not ...
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... Rabelais ' imagery and style . Veselovsky's interpretation largely determined the treatment of Rabelais in our university courses almost until our time . Until World War II Soviet literary critics did not change this situation ...
... Rabelais ' imagery and style . Veselovsky's interpretation largely determined the treatment of Rabelais in our university courses almost until our time . Until World War II Soviet literary critics did not change this situation ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
Copyright | |
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Abel Lefranc ambivalent ancient antique aspect Bakhtin banquet images birth blazons bodily lower stratum carnival carnival spirit carnivalesque Chapter character church comic completely concept culture death debasement devil diableries earth elements entire episode especially expressed familiar fear feast of fools festive folk culture Fourth Book François Rabelais Friar John Gargantua genre Goethe grotesque body grotesque image grotesque realism hell Hippocrates historic human humor ideological imagery important interpretation king language laugh laughter legends linked literary literature marketplace material bodily lower meaning medieval Menippus Middle Ages novel objects official organs Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Paris parody peculiar phallus philosophy picture play popular popular-festive praise-abuse present prologue Pulcinella Rabe Rabelais Rabelaisian Renaissance renewal role Roman Saint satire Saturnalia Schneegans serious sixteenth century speech sphere spirit stress swabs symbol system of images tesque theme tion tone tradition transformed travesty truth typical uncrowning underworld urine utopian wine words