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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... imagery attained its flowering and renewal ; it embraced nearly all areas of art and literature . Under the influence of the art of Eastern peoples a new kind of grotesque was formed , but aesthetic and artistic thought developed along ...
... imagery attained its flowering and renewal ; it embraced nearly all areas of art and literature . Under the influence of the art of Eastern peoples a new kind of grotesque was formed , but aesthetic and artistic thought developed along ...
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... imagery in French Romanticism . We find an interesting presentation of the problem , and one typical of the French Romantic spirit , by Victor Hugo , first in his preface to Cromwell and then in his book on Shakespeare . Hugo gives a ...
... imagery in French Romanticism . We find an interesting presentation of the problem , and one typical of the French Romantic spirit , by Victor Hugo , first in his preface to Cromwell and then in his book on Shakespeare . Hugo gives a ...
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... imagery of medieval folk culture and of the Renaissance which is linked to it can raise no doubts whatever . But how can our term grotesque realism be justified ? We can offer only a preliminary answer to this question here . The ...
... imagery of medieval folk culture and of the Renaissance which is linked to it can raise no doubts whatever . But how can our term grotesque realism be justified ? We can offer only a preliminary answer to this question here . 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