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Title: Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin, Helene Iswolsky ISBN: 0-253-20341-4 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unique and ground-breaking
Comment: This is simply the best analysis of the "Carnivalesque" and is a valuable preface to Rabelais' novel itself. Bakhtin's book alerts the reader of Rabelais to his (Rabelais') masterful use of language and explores the sources of medieval popular culture that served his purposes. I have enjoyed Rabelais with much deeper understanding having first read Bakhtin.
Bakhtin and Rabelais both negotiated cultural minefields to produce their works. Both deserve to be more widely read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Theory
Comment: Good theory, if you're into it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Roots of Our Bittersweet Laughter
Comment: Take your time with this academic book and you will be rewarded. It rediscovers the spirit of the Medieval carnival. The tradition stemmed from ancient Greek and Rome and its function was to give a vent to people's death fear and anger over social injustice. "Everything was allowed" and for a short period of time the social taboos were erased. Fools and prostitutes were "crowned" to embody Kings, Queens, Pope, saints, monks and nunns. And the chosen ones were mocked, ridiculed, assailed and beaten and stoned and "dethrowned" and "impeached."
Is this tradition dead today? Think twice -- think David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and especially Howard Stern, and you will be amazed to find astoundig parallels between the past and modern times.
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Title: The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Vadim Liapunov, Kenneth Brostrom ISBN: 029271534X Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1982 List Price(USD): $17.44 |
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Title: Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin ISBN: 0816612285 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, Burton Raffel ISBN: 0393308065 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Vern W. McGee, Caryl Emerson, Michael Holquist ISBN: 0292775601 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Complete Works of Francois Rabelais (Centennial Book; A Wake Forest Studium Book) by Francois Rabelais, Donald M. Frame, Raymond C. LA Charite ISBN: 0520064011 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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