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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... individual , not in the bourgeois ego , but in the peo- ple , a people who are continually growing and renewed . This is why all that is bodily becomes grandiose , exaggerated , immeasur- able . This exaggeration has a positive ...
... individual , not in the bourgeois ego , but in the peo- ple , a people who are continually growing and renewed . This is why all that is bodily becomes grandiose , exaggerated , immeasur- able . This exaggeration has a positive ...
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... individual conception of life and death . So the admirable initial picture of carnival presented by Goethe is transferred in his Aschermittwochbetractung to the sphere of an individual subjective experience . And thus were these images ...
... individual conception of life and death . So the admirable initial picture of carnival presented by Goethe is transferred in his Aschermittwochbetractung to the sphere of an individual subjective experience . And thus were these images ...
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... individual soul into the higher sphere but the movement for- ward of all mankind , along the horizontal of historic time , be- comes the basic criterion of all evaluations . Having done its part upon earth , the individual soul fades ...
... individual soul into the higher sphere but the movement for- ward of all mankind , along the horizontal of historic time , be- comes the basic criterion of all evaluations . Having done its part upon earth , the individual soul fades ...
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