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Enter Rabelais, laughing

Title
Enter Rabelais, laughing / Barbara C. Bowen.
Author
Bowen, Barbara C.
Publication
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.

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Description
xv, 230 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553? > Criticism and interpretation
  • Comic, The, in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index.
Contents
Prologue -- How Rabelaisian is Rabelais? -- Laugh, and the world laughs with you -- French literary laughter -- Rire est le propre de l'homme -- Laughing Rabelais -- "Literary" genres -- Narrative laughter -- Laughter on stage -- From humanism to trivial pursuit -- Humanist facetiae -- Reformation satire -- The library of Saint-Victor -- Rabelais and rhetoric -- Panurge orator: the Parisian lady -- Panurge orator: the praise of debts -- Doctor Rabelais -- Therapeutic laughter -- Comic diet -- Law and medicine -- Roman and canon law -- Rabelais and law -- Bridoye -- Envoi.
Call Number
JFD 98-9503
ISBN
0826513069 (alk. paper)
LCCN
98008865
OCLC
38174519
Author
Bowen, Barbara C.
Title
Enter Rabelais, laughing / Barbara C. Bowen.
Imprint
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 98-9503
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