Rabelais and his world
M. M. Bakhtin (Author), Hélène Iswolsky (Translator)
This 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
Print Book, English, 1984
First Midland book edition View all formats and editions
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1984
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxiii, 484 pages ; 22 cm
9780253348302, 9780253203410, 0253348307, 0253203414
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Rabelais in the history of laughter
The language of the marketplace in Rabelais
Popular-festive forms and images in Rabelais
Banquet imagery in Rabelais
The grotesque image of the body and its sources
Images of the material bodily lower stratum
Rabelais' images and his time
Translation of: Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnai︠a︡ kulʹtura srednevekovʹi︠a︡ i Renessansa
Translation of: Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaîa kul'tura srednevekov'îa i Renessansa