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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... feast looked back at the past and used the past to conse- crate the present . Unlike the earlier and purer feast , the official feast asserted all that was stable , unchanging , perennial : the exist- ing hierarchy , the existing ...
... feast looked back at the past and used the past to conse- crate the present . Unlike the earlier and purer feast , the official feast asserted all that was stable , unchanging , perennial : the exist- ing hierarchy , the existing ...
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... feast appeared in a circular letter of the Paris School of Theology in 1444. The de- fenders refer to the fact that the feast was established in the earliest age of Christianity by our ancestors who knew best what they were doing . The ...
... feast appeared in a circular letter of the Paris School of Theology in 1444. The de- fenders refer to the fact that the feast was established in the earliest age of Christianity by our ancestors who knew best what they were doing . The ...
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... feasts with " gay time . " Whenever the free popular aspect of the feast is preserved , 16 Actually , every feast day crowns and uncrowns , and has therefore its own king and queen . See this theme in the Decameron , where a king and ...
... feasts with " gay time . " Whenever the free popular aspect of the feast is preserved , 16 Actually , every feast day crowns and uncrowns , and has therefore its own king and queen . See this theme in the Decameron , where a king and ...
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