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Title	:	Rabelais and His World
Author	:	Mikhail Bakhtin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 474 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2009 by Indiana University Press (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Theory. Criticism. Literary Criticism. History. Cultural. Russia

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This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895—1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, especially the world of carnival, as depicted in the novels of François Rabelais. In Bakhtin's view, the spirit of laughter and irreverence prevailing at carnival time is the dominant quality of Rabelais's art. The work of both Rabelais and Bakhtin springs from an age of revolution, and each reflects a particularly open sense of the literary text. For both, carnival, with its emphasis on the earthly and the grotesque, signified the symbolic destruction of authority and official culture and the assertion of popular renewal. Bakhtin evokes carnival as a special, creative life form, with its own space and time. Written in the Soviet Union in the 1930s at the height of the Stalin era but published there for the first time only in 1965, Bakhtin's book is both a major contribution to the poetics of the novel and a subtle condemnation of the degeneration of the Russian revolution into Stalinist orthodoxy. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

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Original Title:	Творчество Франсуа Рабле и народная культура средневековья и Ренессанса (Tvorchestvo Francua Rable i narodnaia kul'tura srednevekov'ia i Renessansa)
ISBN:	0253203414 (ISBN13: 9780253203410)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	François Rabelais

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such a great book, a masterpiece

If you're like me, you find academic pedantry and over-analysis to be the worst kind of scholarship. Delving into a work of fiction with a meticulous and picking it apart is an insufferable effort and should be counted among the worst sins of "literary criticism", especially when the intention of the author, in this case five centuries dead, is most unclear. It's just unnecessary guesswork.Bakhtin walks a fine line between this guesswork and an outright entertaining look at carnival culture, or

Awesome, though at times too sentimental about the middle ages and renaissance. I love his rendition of the grotesque as a means to embrace ambivalence and fearlessness.

I had a pet boa constrictor years ago, and I popped him in a bag along with this book for a cross-country drive, during which time he shat all over the book. I think that's kickass appropriate, but perhaps no more appropriate than had it been kristeva, bataille, or deleuze.

This work is both exhausting and exhaustive. Bakhtin pushes one's patience to the limits while describing the images in Rabelais due to the time he spends on each thing he encounters in his examination. For the reason of his tirelessness, I have rated this book five stars. However, after about two-hundred pages, I was ready for the book to be done.Bakhtin makes the following three major points:1) Rabelais' images are dialectical, meaning that things tend to be both positive and negative at the

You probably already know Bakhtin's story. A brilliant Russian theorist with a touch of what Baudelaire called spleen, he wrote profound philosophical treatises that went largely unnoticed in his lifetime. After his death his rediscovered texts proved immensely influential -- particularly in literary studies and sociology. Rabelais and His World deals, of course, with the bawdy medieval narratives by French writer Rabelais, vaunted by Bakhtin as one of history's most indispensable yet

compares rabelais to the long running folk traditions of humor and carnival. rigid and contained, but ellucidating