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 53
... whole in which it had been linked to that other , younger link in the chain of growth and development . The result is a broken grotesque figure , the demon of fertility with phallus cut off and belly crushed . Hence all these sterile ...
... whole in which it had been linked to that other , younger link in the chain of growth and development . The result is a broken grotesque figure , the demon of fertility with phallus cut off and belly crushed . Hence all these sterile ...
Page 256
... whole , the dying link torn from the link that is born . The whole of the people and of the world is triumphantly gay and fearless . This whole speaks in all carnival images ; it reigns in the very atmosphere of this feast , making ...
... whole , the dying link torn from the link that is born . The whole of the people and of the world is triumphantly gay and fearless . This whole speaks in all carnival images ; it reigns in the very atmosphere of this feast , making ...
Page 416
... whole simultaneously praises and abuses . Praise and abuse may be aligned or divided among private voices , but in the whole they are fused into ambivalent unity . Praise and abuse are mixed in Rabelais not only in the author's words ...
... whole simultaneously praises and abuses . Praise and abuse may be aligned or divided among private voices , but in the whole they are fused into ambivalent unity . Praise and abuse are mixed in Rabelais not only in the author's words ...
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