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Page xvi
Rabelais and His World is , of course , about the subversive openness of the
Rabelaisian novel , but it is also a subversively open book itself . For example , in
the fourth book of Gargantua the tale is told of Master Villon , a rogue who wishes
to ...
Rabelais and His World is , of course , about the subversive openness of the
Rabelaisian novel , but it is also a subversively open book itself . For example , in
the fourth book of Gargantua the tale is told of Master Villon , a rogue who wishes
to ...
Page xvii
One of the specific topics explored in the book is the peculiarity of the novel
among other literary genres . This theme had a particular urgency in the 1930s
because the novel had become the primary focus of the government ' s efforts to
bring ...
One of the specific topics explored in the book is the peculiarity of the novel
among other literary genres . This theme had a particular urgency in the 1930s
because the novel had become the primary focus of the government ' s efforts to
bring ...
Page 104
Nearest of all to Sorel ' s theoretic views is his novel “ The Extravagant Shepherd
” ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and
reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days .
Nearest of all to Sorel ' s theoretic views is his novel “ The Extravagant Shepherd
” ( Le Berger Extravagant ) . This is a pastoral Don Quixote simplified and
reduced to a bare literary parody of the shepherd theme , popular in those days .
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Contents
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
THREE PopularFestive Forms and Images in Rabelais | 196 |
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| Title | Rabelais and His World A Midland book ; MB 341 Volume 341 of Midland books |
| Authors | Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin |
| Translated by | Hélène Iswolsky |
| Contributor | Michael Holquist |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253348307, 9780253348302 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Medieval |
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