François Rabelais : critical assessments
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François Rabelais : critical assessments
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
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Selected and revised papers delivered at a 1991 symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles
Bibliography: p. 213-227
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In Francois Rabelais: Critical Assessments, Jean Claude Carron brings together a distinguished group of senior scholars who have found themselves at the centre of an ongoing debate about historical contextualisation and interpretive strategies. Throughout the book, the authors address certain recurring themes from a variety of critical points of view. The hermeneutic closure or opening of Rabelais's text, crucial to most recent critical debate, is present throughout. Individual chapters explore such issues as the "design" and composition of the text, Rabelais as humanist, his antifeminism, his religious "position" as revealed by biblical or evangelical references, and particular aspects of low early-modern culture. A chapter on Rabelais and Erasmus draws essential differences between the two "giants of European humanism."
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