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 61
... appear heterogeneous and in the eighteenth completely incompatible . They could be interested in the high level of the problems and ideas expresed in the novel's prandial talks , as well as in the trivia , abuses , indecencies ...
... appear heterogeneous and in the eighteenth completely incompatible . They could be interested in the high level of the problems and ideas expresed in the novel's prandial talks , as well as in the trivia , abuses , indecencies ...
Page 237
... appear “ unquiet men " ( las du repos et fachez du sé- jour ) . They will bring strife and rebellion among friends and relatives , they will divide all men into hostile parties , they will arm children against parents ; all order will ...
... appear “ unquiet men " ( las du repos et fachez du sé- jour ) . They will bring strife and rebellion among friends and relatives , they will divide all men into hostile parties , they will arm children against parents ; all order will ...
Page 454
... appear in these episodes , he always leaves a gay loophole - a loophole that opens on the distant future and that lends an aspect of ridicule to the relative progressiveness and rela- tive truth accessible to the present or to the ...
... appear in these episodes , he always leaves a gay loophole - a loophole that opens on the distant future and that lends an aspect of ridicule to the relative progressiveness and rela- tive truth accessible to the present or to the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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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