Rabelaisian Dialectic And The Platonic Hermetic Tradition
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Rabelaisian Dialectic And The Platonic Hermetic Tradition
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Author : George Mallary Masters
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1969-01-01
Rabelaisian Dialectic And The Platonic Hermetic Tradition written by George Mallary Masters and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969-01-01 with Dialectic categories.
In this study, Professor Masters looks beyond the few critical attempts that heretofore have analyzed only isolated aspects of Platonism and Hermetism in Rabelaisian literature. He examines the closely related themes of Platonism, the Dionysian mysteries, and the Hermetic sciences in Rabelais's work and concludes that Rabelais shared with the Platonic-Hermetic tradition both its dialectic and perception of man's position in the universe. In the perspective of Platonic dialectic, Professor Masters analyzes Rabelaisian allegory, symbolism, and imagery as a play on appearance and reality. Through the allegorical myths of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais rejects the seemingly dichotomous extremes of materialism and ascetic spiritualism, while his philosophy of Pantagrue?lisme shows a positive acceptance of both the physical world and contemplative thought. Through the symbolism of wine, Rabelais manifests the Platonic ideal of Love-Harmony-Order on the literal level of conviviality, in the philosophical dialogue of the symposium, and in the intuitive dialectic of Socratic contemplation. In Rabelais's view, man can achieve self-knowledge only through reasonable control and by actively establishing a balance with society, nature, and God. The magus may diabolically use the "sciences" of astrology, magic, alchemy, and the Cabala in an attempt to subject the world to his own will, or he may achieve unity with himself and his total environment by restoring in himself the harmonious order he finds in the cosmos. In an appendix, Professor Masters examines the continuity of the several themes of the Platonic-Hermetic tradition as they occur in the five books of the Rabelaisian corpus. He concludes, as two corollaries of the main thesis, that their constant recurrence demonstrates the thematic unity of the five books and the authenticity of Book Five.
Nature Loves To Hide An Alternative History Of Philosophy
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Author : Paul S. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-04-05
Nature Loves To Hide An Alternative History Of Philosophy written by Paul S. MacDonald and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-05 with Religion categories.
An alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought: alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg, Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.
Ideas And Ideals In The North European Renasissance
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Author : Frances A. Yates
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Ideas And Ideals In The North European Renasissance written by Frances A. Yates and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with History categories.
This is Volume X of ten of the selected works of Frances Yates. Originally published in 1984, this collection of thirty-five essays.
Etudes Rabelaisiennes
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Author : Marie-Madeleine Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Release Date : 1983
Etudes Rabelaisiennes written by Marie-Madeleine Fontaine and has been published by Librairie Droz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
The Rabelaisian Mythologies
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Author : Max Gauna
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1996
The Rabelaisian Mythologies written by Max Gauna and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Giants categories.
Chapter 4 examines in detail the various myths of the fourth book and suggests that in it Rabelais propounds a radically unorthodox syncretism in which the poetic attractions of Platonic and Plutarchan demonology are preponderant, in which Christ Himself may be seen as the greatest of the demons, and where the climax of the book shows us the hero Pantagruel in direct communication with his own guardian demon. A short epilogue sums up Gauna's conclusions and suggests reasons for the literary and philosophical attractions of magical Platonism.
A Crtitical Bibliography Of French Literature V2 16th C
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language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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A Crtitical Bibliography Of French Literature V2 16th C written by and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Ghost Stories In Late Renaissance France
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Author : Timothy Chesters
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-01-13
Ghost Stories In Late Renaissance France written by Timothy Chesters and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. Although existing studies of this climate have been attentive to the extensive body of writing on witchcraft and demons, they have had little to say of its ghosts. Combining techniques of literary criticism, intellectual history, and the history of the book, this study examines a large and hitherto unexplored corpus of ghost stories in late Renaissance French writing. These are shown to have arisen in a range of contexts far broader than was previously thought: whether in Protestant polemic against the doctrine of purgatory, humanist discussions of friendship, the growing ethnographic consciousness of New World ghost beliefs, or courtroom wrangles over haunted property. Chesters describes how, over the course of this period, we also begin to see emerge characteristics recognisable from modern ghost tales: the setting of the 'haunted house', the eroticised ghost, or the embodied revenant. Taking in prominent literary figures including Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, d'Aubigné, as well as forgotten demonological tracts and sensationalist pamphlets, Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France sheds new light on the beliefs, fears, and desires of a period on the threshold of modernity. It will be of interest to any scholar or student working in the field of early modern European history, literature or thought.
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.
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.
The Design Of Rabelais S
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Author : Edwin M. Duval
language : en
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Release Date : 1997
The Design Of Rabelais S written by Edwin M. Duval and has been published by Librairie Droz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
En analysant le “dessin” du Tiers Livre - sa composition formelle aussi bien que son intention sous-jacente - E. Duval dégage la cohérence profonde d'une œuvre qui passe le plus souvent pour ambiguë et “ménippéenne”. Cette cohérence, qui se manifeste simultanément à deux niveaux (celui du dessin de Pantagruel dans la quête, celui du dessin de Rabelais dans son livre), permet à l'auteur non seulement de résoudre plusieurs apories de la critique rabelaisienne, mais de découvrir dans le Tiers Livre des dimensions et des ironies inaperçues jusqu'à présent.