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Rabelais Laughers
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Author : Gregory de Rocher
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 1979
Rabelais Laughers written by Gregory de Rocher and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.
Enter Rabelais Laughing
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Author : Barbara C. Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 1998
Enter Rabelais Laughing written by Barbara C. Bowen and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Francois Rabelais (1483?-1553) is a difficult and often misunderstood author, whose reputation for coarse "Rabelaisian" jesting and "Gargantuan" indulgence in food, drink, and sex is highly misleading. He was in fact a committed humanist who expressed strong views on religion, good government, education, and much more through the mock-heroic adventures of his giants. While most books about Rabelais have relatively little to say about his comedic genius, Enter Rabelais, Laughing analyses the many sides of Rabelais's humor, focusing on why his writing was so hilariously funny to sixteenth-century readers. The author begins by discussing how the Renaissance defined laughter and situates Rabelais in a long tradition of literary laughter. Subsequent chapters examine specific contexts relevant to Gargantua and Pantagruel, beginning with the comic aspects of epic, chronicle, mock-epic, and farce, and proceeding to Renaissance and Reformation humanist satire, rhetoric, medicine, and law. All of these chapters combine information, much of it new, on the humanist message Rabelais wanted to convey to his readers, with an analysis of how he used his wit to reinforce his message. Rarely is a writer's work treated in such illuminating detail. On a broad level, Enter Rabelais, Laughing serves as an excellent introduction to French Renaissance literature and exhibits a remarkably charming and lucid writing style, free of jargon. To Rabelais scholars in particular it offers a thorough and innovative analysis that corrects misconceptions and questions commonly held views.
Rabelais S Laughers And Joubert S Traite Du Ris
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Author : Gergory D. Rocher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979-01-01
Rabelais S Laughers And Joubert S Traite Du Ris written by Gergory D. Rocher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with categories.
Laughter Jestbooks And Society In The Spanish Netherlands
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Author : Johan Verberckmoes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-03-15
Laughter Jestbooks And Society In The Spanish Netherlands written by Johan Verberckmoes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-15 with History categories.
Prior to the modern age laughter raised passions and activated the body to sweat and shake. Derision was not distinguished from joy. Deceiving the senses by tricks or funny stories made all people laugh loudly, regardless of class. Johan Verberckmoes describes, in this innovating book, the hotchpotch of comic images and stories in 'Flandes' during the rule of the Spanish Habsburgs, from 1500 to 1700. It challenges the Bakhtinian idea of a caesura in the history of laughter around 1600.
Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross
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Author : M.a. Screech
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross written by M.a. Screech and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Social Science categories.
"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. But we are fortunate in our gu
Rabelais And His World
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Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1984
Rabelais And His World written by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Cambridge Companion To Rabelais
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Author : John O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Cambridge Companion To Rabelais written by John O'Brien and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
An accessible, readable account of Rabelais, his work, his thought and his world.
Laughter In The Middle Ages And Early Modern Times
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-09-22
Laughter In The Middle Ages And Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.
Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society Volume 21
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Author : Ian W. Archer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Transactions Of The Royal Historical Society Volume 21 written by Ian W. Archer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with History categories.
A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.
Humour And Humanism In The Renaissance
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Author : Barbara C. Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-07
Humour And Humanism In The Renaissance written by Barbara C. Bowen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-07 with History categories.
Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'