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Book A Companion to Fran  ois Rabelais

Download or read book A Companion to Fran ois Rabelais written by Bernd Renner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two eminent scholars of Early Modernity offer a thorough examination of the art and the main themes of François Rabelais’s work in the larger context of European humanism.

Book The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais

Download or read book The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the complete works of French writer Francois Rabelais.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais written by John O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, readable account of Rabelais, his work, his thought and his world.

Book The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais

Download or read book The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the complete works of French writer Francois Rabelais.

Book Gargantua and Pantagruel

    Book Details:
  • Author : François Rabelais
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780393308068
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Gargantua and Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dazzling and exuberant comic 'Chronicles' of Rabelais (c. 1483-1552) are a feast of wisdom and laughter. Realism intertwines with carnivalesque fantasy, Renaissance learning with obscene humour to make readers look at the world afresh. Pantagruel, a tale of comic chivalry, satirizes lawyers, theologians and academic buffoons, while Gargantua mocks rash generals, idiotic monarchs and uncouth professors. It champions freedom and laughs at a dirty young giant before he turns into a splendid prince. Sequels lead into more complex and daring laughter and high mythology, often at the expense of Panurge - the mad, word-spinning companion of Pantagruel (who becomes a giant in wisdom, a Renaissance Socrates)." "M. A. Screech's translation captures Rabelais' ingenious wordplay and mastery of language. The introduction explores his individuality while comparing him to Shakespeare, and presents each book to open up the new horizons of Renaissance Europe. This edition also includes a chronology and notes."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Gargantua and Pantagruel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francois Rabelais
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2006-10-26
  • ISBN : 0141935782
  • Pages : 1088 pages

Download or read book Gargantua and Pantagruel written by Francois Rabelais and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.

Book The Works of Franc  ois Rabelais

Download or read book The Works of Franc ois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Complete Works of Francois Rabelais

Download or read book Complete Works of Francois Rabelais written by Rabelais/Frame and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own right, bringing to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French. A final part containing all the rest of Rabelais's known writings, including his letters, supplements the five books traditionally known as Gargantua and Pantagruel.This great comic narrative, written in hugely popular installments over more than two decades, was unsparingly satirical of scholarly pomposity and the many abuses of religious, legal, and political power. The books were condemned at various times by the Sorbonne and narrowly escaped being banned. Behind Rabelais's obvious pleasure in lampooning effete erudition and the excesses of society is the humanist's genuine love of knowledge and belief in the basic goodness of human nature. The bawdy wit and uninhibited zest for life that characterize his unlikely trio of travelers have delighted readers and inspired other writers ever since the exploits of Gargantua and Pantagruel first appeared.

Book Gargantua

    Book Details:
  • Author : François Rabelais
  • Publisher : Hesperus Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Gargantua written by François Rabelais and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a companion volume to Pantagruel, this new edition of Gargantua continues Rabelais’ acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. Gargantua introduces Pantagruel’s father—another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua’s life story from his birth and education to his later life, Rabelais uses the events of the giant’s life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor, obsession with food, and scatological wit of Pantagruel, Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais’ contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.

Book The Complete Works of Fran  ois Rabelais

Download or read book The Complete Works of Fran ois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gargantua and Pantagruel

    Book Details:
  • Author : François Rabelais
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2006-11
  • ISBN : 142504431X
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Gargantua and Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of five books, this masterpiece is Rabelais' magnum opus. It chronicles different events in the life of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Using his learned wit and biting satire as a facade, Rabelais discusses several serious issues. The apparent humour and brilliant use of language offers pure reading pleasure. Entertaining and profound!

Book The Works of Fran  ois Rabelais

Download or read book The Works of Fran ois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Fran   cois Rabelais

Download or read book The Life of Fran cois Rabelais written by Jean Plattard and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1968-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Rabelais and His World

Download or read book Rabelais and His World written by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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.

Book The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel   Vol I  1532

Download or read book The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel Vol I 1532 written by Francois Rabelais and published by Pomona Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France which remains a satirical and comic classic. Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty. The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. "Gargantua" depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in "Pantagruel" and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.

Book Readings from Rabelais

Download or read book Readings from Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1920, this book contains a selection of passages from Rabelais. Detailed notes and a biography of Rabelais are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the works of Rabelais and French Renaissance literature.