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 19
... positive . It is presented not in a private , egotistic form , severed from the other spheres of life , but as something universal , repre- senting all the people . As such it is opposed to severance from the material and bodily roots ...
... positive . It is presented not in a private , egotistic form , severed from the other spheres of life , but as something universal , repre- senting all the people . As such it is opposed to severance from the material and bodily roots ...
Page 62
... positive pole takes place . When the grotesque is used to illustrate an abstract idea , its nature is inevitably dis- torted . The essence of the grotesque is precisely to present a con- tradictory and double - faced fullness of life ...
... positive pole takes place . When the grotesque is used to illustrate an abstract idea , its nature is inevitably dis- torted . The essence of the grotesque is precisely to present a con- tradictory and double - faced fullness of life ...
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... positive form . Here , too , freedom and im- punity are inseparable from the positive content of all the images of this episode . These carnivalesque forms must not surprise us . Even the great economic and sociopolitical changes of ...
... positive form . Here , too , freedom and im- punity are inseparable from the positive content of all the images of this episode . These carnivalesque forms must not surprise us . Even the great economic and sociopolitical changes of ...
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