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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Page 211
... popular - festive system of images which he inherited . He did not create this system , but it rose in him to a higher level of historical development . But perhaps all these images are nothing but a dead and crip- pling tradition ...
... popular - festive system of images which he inherited . He did not create this system , but it rose in him to a higher level of historical development . But perhaps all these images are nothing but a dead and crip- pling tradition ...
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... popular comic tradition and the ascetic tradition are profoundly alien to each other . The popular tradition is in no way hostile to woman and does not approach her negatively . In this tradition woman is essentially related to the ...
... popular comic tradition and the ascetic tradition are profoundly alien to each other . The popular tradition is in no way hostile to woman and does not approach her negatively . In this tradition woman is essentially related to the ...
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... popular positive im- age of the " satisfied man . " The fat belly of the demons of fertility and of the heroic popular gluttons ( for instance , Gargantua in folk- lore ) are transformed into the paunch of the insatiable simonist abbot ...
... popular positive im- age of the " satisfied man . " The fat belly of the demons of fertility and of the heroic popular gluttons ( for instance , Gargantua in folk- lore ) are transformed into the paunch of the insatiable simonist abbot ...
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