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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... present the character of a popular - festive comic performance : it is a gay and free play , but it is also full of deep meaning . Its hero and author is time itself , which uncrowns , covers with ridicule , kills the old world ( the ...
... present the character of a popular - festive comic performance : it is a gay and free play , but it is also full of deep meaning . Its hero and author is time itself , which uncrowns , covers with ridicule , kills the old world ( the ...
Page 286
... present . In the Hippoc- rates collection there is a treatise on " Winds " with which Rabelais was well acquainted . It contained the following description of in- ebriety at banquets : " due to a sudden increase of blood , there is a ...
... present . In the Hippoc- rates collection there is a treatise on " Winds " with which Rabelais was well acquainted . It contained the following description of in- ebriety at banquets : " due to a sudden increase of blood , there is a ...
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... presents an individual body ; the image consists of and convexities that present another , newly conceived body . It is a point of transition in a life eternally renewed , the inexhaust- vessel of death and conception . orifices -ible ...
... presents an individual body ; the image consists of and convexities that present another , newly conceived body . It is a point of transition in a life eternally renewed , the inexhaust- vessel of death and conception . orifices -ible ...
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