A Companion to François Rabelais
A Companion to François Rabelais

Author: Bernd Renner

Publisher: Renaissance Society of America

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9789004360037

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"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"--

Gargantua and Pantagruel Volume 5 EasyRe
Gargantua and Pantagruel Volume 5 EasyRe

Author: Francois Rabelais

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1425048064

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Consisting of five books, this masterpiece is Rabelais' magnum opus. It chronicles different events in the life of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Using his learned wit and biting satire as a facade, Rabelais discusses several serious issues. The apparent humour and brilliant use of language offers pure reading pleasure. Entertaining and profound!

Rabelais and His World
Rabelais and His World

Author: Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780253203410

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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.

The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture
The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 9004378219

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This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “national”, regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, scholarship, art, and architecture were pivotal media that were used to give evidence of the impressive old lineage of states, regions, or families. These claims were related not only to classical antiquity but also to other periods that were regarded as antiquities, such as the Middle Ages, especially the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of “antiquity” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in the period of 1400–1700. Contributors include: Barbara Arciszewska, Bianca De Divitiis, Karl Enenkel, Hubertus Günther, Thomas Haye, Harald Hendrix, Stephan Hoppe, Marc Laureys, Frédérique Lemerle, Coen Maas, Anne-Françoise Morel, Kristoffer Neville, Konrad Ottenheym, Yves Pauwels, Christian Peters, Christoph Pieper, David Rijser, Bernd Roling, Nuno Senos, Paul Smith, Pieter Vlaardingerbroek, and Matthew Walker.

Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books
Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books

Author: Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9004413650

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This bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues presents a multitude of texts, from the genre’s beginnings (Rabelais’s satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700.

Gargantua and Pantagruel Volume 5 EasyRe
Gargantua and Pantagruel Volume 5 EasyRe

Author: Francois Rabelais

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1425049087

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Consisting of five books, this masterpiece is Rabelais' magnum opus. It chronicles different events in the life of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Using his learned wit and biting satire as a facade, Rabelais discusses several serious issues. The apparent humour and brilliant use of language offers pure reading pleasure. Entertaining and profound!

Gargantua
Gargantua

Author: François Rabelais

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-05-09

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781512125894

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"Gargantua - The Fifth Book" from Fran�ois Rabelais. French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar (1494-1553).

Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua and Pantagruel

Author: Francois Rabelais

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-02-13

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781543106572

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Rabelais's book consists of five books. The first is Gargantua, and the other four Pantagruel. The full title is: The very horrifying life of the great Gargantua, father of Pantagruel. Formerly composed by Mr. Alcofribas abstract of essence essence. Full book of Pantagruellism, or more simply Gargantua. Gargantua was written after Pantagruel but placed first by Rabelais. Grandgousier, Gargantua, Pantagruel are kings and giants who rule in Utopia, near Chinon, in Touraine. Such is the scene of the scene. As for action, it is impossible to follow; The author introduces his characters into life, recounts their childhood, makes the trial of the education which was given of his time; Then he sows, according to his fancy, the most diverse episodes, the digressions and the most burlesque. We shall not follow Grandgousier in all his peregrinations; We shall relate in this history only what is likely to make us appreciate in Rabelais the serious thinker who is ahead of his century. Grandgousier is a peaceful king, good and dear to his subjects. He is attacked, in defiance of all right, by King Picrochole. The King of Utopia, having exhausted all means of preserving peace, is obliged to have recourse to arms. Picrochole invaded the kingdom of Grandgousier, ravaged a whole country; But he is stopped in his course, beaten, and runs away, followed scarcely by a few companions. However, the conqueror, far from abusing his victory, respects the enemy's territory and restores freedom to the prisoners without ransom. This trait was a protest against the horrors and injustices of war.