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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... tion of life to death . Such an opposition is completely contrary to the system of grotesque imagery , in which death is not a nega- tion of life seen as the great body of all the people but part of life as a whole - its indispensable ...
... tion of life to death . Such an opposition is completely contrary to the system of grotesque imagery , in which death is not a nega- tion of life seen as the great body of all the people but part of life as a whole - its indispensable ...
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... tion that we must recognize the direct influence of the cries of Paris on Rabelais and their importance in helping us to under- stand his work and the entire literature of the Renaissance.24 For Rabelais and his contemporaries the cries ...
... tion that we must recognize the direct influence of the cries of Paris on Rabelais and their importance in helping us to under- stand his work and the entire literature of the Renaissance.24 For Rabelais and his contemporaries the cries ...
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... tion , and their individual character is strengthened thereby . Furthermore , in their dynamic abusive function as swabs their material and individual nature is sharply brought out . The name becomes almost like the nickname of a ...
... tion , and their individual character is strengthened thereby . Furthermore , in their dynamic abusive function as swabs their material and individual nature is sharply brought out . The name becomes almost like the nickname of a ...
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