Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1968
Description: Binding tight. Text very good. No names, notes, underlining, highlighting. Hardcover in good condition, fair dust jacket. Cover edges lightly worn. Dust jacket is quite soiled, edges lightly worn. Spots on edge of pages. 1968. Strand reduced price sticker on front paste-down. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Date Published: 1984-08-01
ISBN-13:9780253203410ISBN:0253203414
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Description: Very good. 1968 MIT Press hard cover-1st edition-minor staining to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some tanning to page edge-otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean-enjoy. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. 1968 MIT Press hard cover-1st edition-minor staining to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some tanning to page edge-otherwise cover and binding fine contents clean-enjoy. read more
Binding: orig. wrappers
Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington
Date Published: 1984
Description: Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge spotting. VG. 22x13cm, xxiii, 484 pp, PAPERBACK. Translation of: Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kul'tura srednevekov'ia i Renessansa. Translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Contents: Rabelais in the History of Laughter; The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais; Popular-Festive Forms and Images in Rabelais; Banquet Imagery in Rabelais; The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its Sources; Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum; Rabelais' Images and His Time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780253203410ISBN:0253203414
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1968
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. This book is double-voiced: it is doing two things simultaneously, for the multitude of shattered unities we call revolution brings forth texts with peculiar forms of unity. At one level it is a guidebook for its times, and at another level it is a contribution to historical poetics with time and place. Includes an Index. read more
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"Wow! At one time trash talking and irony wasn't just to cut the other guy down to size. It was meant to revitalize, revivify and renew. Feasting, loosing of bowels, a bit of the old in and out, beating someone until they are bloodied, crushed and readied for eating as mince meat and general debaucery at the wine keg are all activities of rebirth and regeneration and all around good fun in the middle ages...and sometimes,if you hang about the applicable crowd, one can find such activities existant in our more "enlightened" age. And usually real death does ensue.
I love Bakhtin. I think I really love his critique of Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel far more than I liked the actual fantastic novel by the French novelist. I tried reading it a couple of years ago and didn't get all the references and milieu of the writers time. Perhaps, I will try the novel again and not be so perplexed. I just have to remember important facts. The novel has a lot of screwing, barfing, child birth, cudgeling, affectionate ribbing, playful killing and drowning of whole villages with copious amounts of urine. Why? Because Rabellais was trying to attack the serious culture of medieval Europe with its oppressive hierarchies of the church and kings and feudal lords. And the only time and way to do this eviscerating of such banal seriousness was during the period of carnival and, in the arts, with carnival images. Otherwise, attacking seriousness with seriousness may lead to a hot fire around a human sized stake in the village square and lead you to howling, quite seriously, as your flesh melts from your bones, forming a tasty bubbling broth for the rats to swill at the conclusion of your very own inferno.
For writers, just soak up the imagery. Let it percolate in your own bowels and watch it ooze onto the page at the most opportune, but albeit unintended moment. Or use it with the full intention of stealing the ideas and imagery and interpolating it into your own story or novel. In other words, here is a literary critic who speaks to writers. If only more literary critics did the same. Usually, the best literary critics, in my mind, are already writers. Nabokov's critiques of Kafka, Dickens, Tolstoy, Gogol are some of the best lit. crit. I have ever read.
I highly recommend this book. Read it and feel your own bowels rejoice at the freedom of carnivalesque imagery, sentiment and enthusiasm for the lower bodily stratums ability to digest, defecate, pee and procreate. EnjoY!"
"Not published in English until 1968, this book is a must read for anyone serious about understanding the role of comedy in Western literature. There are some questionable spots of Rabelaisian analysis in the book, but overall the book is valuable for its general insights. It's when Bahktin gets down to particulars in Rabelais episodes that he sometimes slips."
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