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Rabelais and his world


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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.

Inhoud

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.

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Uitgever

  • Uitgave

    Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984

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  • Persoon

  • Onderwerp


Type

  • Taal

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Classificatie

  • ISBN

    • 0253203414
    • 0253348307
    • 9780253348302
    • 9780253203410

Annotaties / titel notitie's

  • Notities

    • Translation of: Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnai͡a kulʹtura srednevekovʹi͡a i Renessansa (Moscow, 1965).
    • Includes index.

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