Rabelais and his world / Mikhail Bakhtin ; a new translation by Sergeiy Sandler ; foreword by Caryl Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975, author.

Contributor:

Sandler, Sergeiy, translator.

Emerson, Caryl, writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kulʹtura srednevekovʹiai Renessansa. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?--Criticism and interpretation.

Rabelais, François.

Laughter in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

lx, 687 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Bakhtin's most famous book: a classic in Renaissance studies, literary studies, and cultural history: in it he develops his concepts of the carnival, the grotesque, and outlines a history of laughter"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rabelais in the history of laughter – The public-square world in Rabelais’s novel – Folk-festive forms and images in Rabelais’s novel – Feasting images in Rabelais – The grotesque image of the body in Rabelais and its sources – Images of the material-bodily nethers in Rabelais’s novels – Rabelais’s images and his contemporary reality.

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [597]-623) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975. Rabelais and his world

ISBN:

9780262553131

0262553139

OCLC:

1479724540