Rabelais's Carnival by Samuel Kinser
How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to Lent, occurs in Rabelais's Fourth Book, his last and most artfully crafted novel. Samuel Kinser argues that the text has been distorted because critics have not attended to the episode's performative as well as literary contexts, overlooking the innovative use Rabelais made in his work of his immediate world. In this original interpretation of the Fourth Book, Kinser evokes the gestures, games, and visual, oral, bodily semantics of Carnival and Lent as they were performed in Rabelais's day. He also underscores the importance to Rabelais of the invention of printing, an innovation which revolutionized the relationships of author and reader. Understanding this and fearing it, Rabelais adopted an extraordinary set of disguises as an author, disguises which in their bewildering interplay constitute the truest sense of his carnival. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.-
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
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The Mirror of Herodotus
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Resistant Structures
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An Empire Nowhere
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Writing and Rebellion
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Carnal Israel
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The Widening Gate
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Roads to Rome
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Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530
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The Rites of Knighthood
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Behind the Scenes
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Mexico at the World's Fairs
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Inscribing the Time
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Loyola's Acts
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The Imaginary Puritan
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Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers
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Another Kind of Love
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The Eloquence of Color
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Dilemmas of Enlightenment
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Trials of Authorship
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The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
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The Renaissance Bible
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Dearest Beloved
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Domestic Individualism
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Romancing the Past
Samuel Kinser is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University. He is author of four previous books, incluing Carnival American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520306158 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520306155 |
| Title | Rabelais's Carnival |
| Author | Samuel Kinser |
| Series | The New Historicism: Studies In Cultural Poetics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2022-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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