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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... concept has been most fully and masterfully ex- pressed , whereas in other works of Renaissance literature it was ... concept of the body . It is this concept that also forms the body images in the immense mass of legends and literary ...
... concept has been most fully and masterfully ex- pressed , whereas in other works of Renaissance literature it was ... concept of the body . It is this concept that also forms the body images in the immense mass of legends and literary ...
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... concept of reality and lent a great importance to time and to historic becoming . Thanks to this concept , they strove to see in a masterpiece much more than that which appeared on the surface . They sought to discover the signs of the ...
... concept of reality and lent a great importance to time and to historic becoming . Thanks to this concept , they strove to see in a masterpiece much more than that which appeared on the surface . They sought to discover the signs of the ...
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... concept of the body ; this special concept binds to- gether the quoted examples and essentially relates them to one another . In all three cases we find the same mode of representation of the bodily life , which differs sharply from the ...
... concept of the body ; this special concept binds to- gether the quoted examples and essentially relates them to one another . In all three cases we find the same mode of representation of the bodily life , which differs sharply from 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