Rabelais and the Social Order : An Essay in Cognitive Criticism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Neil.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (594 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This book explores the fiction of the French writer François Rabelais (d. 1553) and its engagement with the seemingly unresolvable tensions of hierarchy. It analyses how thinkers from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first have reinterpreted this tension, and Rabelais's reading of it, in light of their own political and cultural concerns.

Contents:

Cover

Rabelais and the Social Order : An Essay in Cognitive Criticism

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Style

Part I: Rabelais And The Social Order (I) A Reading

1: Two Questions

a. A specific question and a general one

b. Rabelais and the social order

c. Literary communication (I)

2: Pantagruel (1532)

a. Focalization (I): Pantagruel and Gargantua

b. Focalization (II): Alcofribas Nasier and Panurge

c. Episodes (I)

d. Ergon (I)

3: Gargantua (1534/5)

a. Ergon (II)

b. The social order over time: dismantling and rebuilding

i. Genealogy

ii. Education (I)

iii. War

iv. Thélème (I)

4: Tiers Livre (1546)

a. The 'difficultez' of renewing social order through procreation and inheritance

i. The four phases of the Tiers Livre

ii. Chapters 1-9

iii. Chapters 10-46

iv. Chapters 47-52

b. Ergon (III): The Prologue

5: Quart Livre (1552)

a. Ergon (IV)

b. A book of societies (I)

c. A succession of societies (I)

d. Social orders beyond theory

e. Experimental doses of virtue, vice, sex, violence, eating, wealth (I)

6: Cinquiesme Livre (1564)

a. A book of societies (II)

b. A succession of societies (II)

c. Experimental doses of virtue, vice, sex, violence, eating, wealth (II)

Part II: Rabelais And The Social Order (II) Readings Over the Centuries

7: Literary Communication (II)

8: Who?

9: Where?

a. The inn and the cellars

b. The fields and the land

10: When?

11: How?

a. Implicatures and implications

b. Extracting and collocating

i. Across all five chronicles

ii. Episodes (II)

iii. A sentence

12: Eugène Noël

13: Literary Communication (III)

Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-898726-9

OCLC:

1583402831