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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... character ; this is not the body and its physiology in the modern sense of these words , because it is not individualized . The material bodily principle is contained not in the biological individual , not in the bourgeois ego , but in ...
... character ; this is not the body and its physiology in the modern sense of these words , because it is not individualized . The material bodily principle is contained not in the biological individual , not in the bourgeois ego , but in ...
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... character of this episode . We find this character through- out the novel . Rabelais always seeks to introduce into the texture of his story a real peculiar trait of some French province or town , some local curiosity or legend . We ...
... character of this episode . We find this character through- out the novel . Rabelais always seeks to introduce into the texture of his story a real peculiar trait of some French province or town , some local curiosity or legend . We ...
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... character is strengthened thereby . Furthermore , in their dynamic abusive function as swabs their material and individual nature is sharply brought out . The name becomes almost like the nickname of a character in a farce . The newness ...
... character is strengthened thereby . Furthermore , in their dynamic abusive function as swabs their material and individual nature is sharply brought out . The name becomes almost like the nickname of a character in a farce . The newness ...
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