Book Description
This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven.
Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 1955-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140440478
This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven.
Author : Bernd Renner
Publisher : Renaissance Society of America
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004360037
"A Companion to François Rabelais offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the works of François Rabelais, one of the most influential writers of the Western literary tradition. A monk, medical doctor, translator and editor, Rabelais embodies the ideals of Renaissance humanism. His genre-bending fiction combines vast erudition, comic verve, and critical observations of all spheres of contemporary life that are relevant to this day. Two sections of this volume situate Rabelais's work in the larger social, political, and literary context of his time. A third section gives concise interpretations of each of the five books of the Pantagrueline Chronicles. The contributors are eminent scholars of early modern literature, many of whom write in English for the first time"--
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
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Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253203410
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.
Author : E. Bruce Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317072316
In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the understanding of the theater of farce and its literary possibilities. By tracing the development of farce in late medieval and Renaissance comedic theater in comparison to the evolution of farce in Rabelais's work, Hayes distinguishes Rabelais's use of the device from traditional farce. While traditional farce is primarily conservative in its aims, with an emphasis on maintaining the status quo, Rabelais puts farce to radical new uses, making it subversive in his own work. Bruce Hayes examines the use of farce in Pantagruel, Gargantua, and the Tiers and Quart livres, showing how Rabelais recast farce in a humanist context, making it a vehicle for attacking the status quo and posing alternatives to contemporary legal, educational, and theological systems. Rabelais's Radical Farce illustrates the rich possibilities of a genre often considered simplistic and unsophisticated, disclosing how Rabelais in fact introduced both a radical reformulation of farce, and a new form of humanist satire.
Author : William Francis Smith
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052186786X
An accessible, readable account of Rabelais, his work, his thought and his world.
Author : Peter Frei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1000530434
What does obscene mean? What does it have to say about the means through which meaning is produced and received in literary, artistic and, more broadly, social acts of representation and interaction? Early modern France and Europe faced these questions not only in regard to the political, religious and artistic reformations for which the Renaissance stands, but also in light of the reconfiguration of its mediasphere in the wake of the invention of the printing press. The Politics of Obscenity brings together researchers from Europe and the United States in offering scholars of early modern Europe a detailed understanding of the implications and the impact of obscene representations in their relationship to the Gutenberg Revolution which came to define Western modernity.
Author : Paul Naudon
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Ellen R. Welch
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611490634
A Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot's 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Antoine Galland's early eighteenth-century version of The Thousand and One Nights. Concentrating on the most successful examples of some of the most important sub-genres of prose fiction in the long seventeenth century—heroic romances, shorter urban novels, fictional memoirs, and extraordinary voyages—the book examines how these types of fiction creatively appropriate the scientific or documentary forms of writing that claimed to inform the French public about exotic places.