Rabelais: A Critical Study in Prose Fiction (Major European Authors Series) - Softcover

Coleman, Dorothy Gabe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521294584 ISBN 13: 9780521294584

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1979

Synopsis

A study of Rabelais (?1494-1553) as a literary artist giving special attention to the form and language of his fiction. Coleman uses a genuinely literary approach, using some of the techniques of stylistic analysis. She avoids the two extremes of approaching Rabelais either as a solemn sixteenth-century humanist who expressed profound truths in simple allegories or as a mere joker, drunk with words. Instead she sees him as finding a particular form - Menippean satire - in which he could achieve a balance between seriousness and irony, involvement and detachment, direct address to the reader and distance, and in which he was able to develop his own unique language. This study will interest students and teachers of French and European literature and Renaissance studies.

About this title

Book Description:

Coleman sees Rabelais as finding a particular form - Menippean satire - in which he could achieve a balance between seriousness and irony, involvement and detachment, direct address to the reader and distance, and in which he was able to develop his own unique language.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0521294584
• ISBN 13: 9780521294584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252