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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... true reality of modern times ? This would be a most absurd supposition . True , the system of popular - festive images was developed and went on living over thousands of years . This long development had its own scoria , its own dead ...
... true reality of modern times ? This would be a most absurd supposition . True , the system of popular - festive images was developed and went on living over thousands of years . This long development had its own scoria , its own dead ...
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... true folk festival , completely independent of Church and State but tolerated by them . This was true of the Roman carnival described by Goethe in his famous sketch in 1788 ; and true also of the 1895 carnival in that city , pictured by ...
... true folk festival , completely independent of Church and State but tolerated by them . This was true of the Roman carnival described by Goethe in his famous sketch in 1788 ; and true also of the 1895 carnival in that city , pictured by ...
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... true of his medical nomenclature , for example . True , he widely used neologisms as well as Greek and Latin terms , but he also borrowed a great deal from oral sources of the vernacular . He often used side by side a scientific ...
... true of his medical nomenclature , for example . True , he widely used neologisms as well as Greek and Latin terms , but he also borrowed a great deal from oral sources of the vernacular . He often used side by side a scientific ...
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