Rabelais Carnival

Rabelais Carnival
ISBN-10
0520065220
ISBN-13
9780520065222
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
1990-01-01
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Sam Kinser

Description

"Kinser proposes a very persuasive post-Bakhtinian approach to Rabelais's novel and its relation to the carnival. His new historical epistemology, emphasizing as it does the genetic function of an archival 'metatext, ' is compatible with a sophisticated semiotic analysis of the Rabelaisian text. This is a timely, erudite and subtle book which bases its theoretical arguments on solid documentary and textual evidence."--Michel Beaujour, New York University

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