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Author : John O'Brien
Release : 2011
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 86X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais by : John O'Brien
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais written by John O'Brien. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, readable account of Rabelais, his work, his thought and his world.
Author : John D. Lyons
Release : 2016
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 046/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to French Literature by : John D. Lyons
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to French Literature written by John D. Lyons. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.
Author : Bernd Renner
Release : 2021-08-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 233/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Companion to François Rabelais by : Bernd Renner
Download or read book A Companion to François Rabelais written by Bernd Renner. This book was released on 2021-08-30. 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.
Author : Thomas Keymer
Release : 2009-08-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 721/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne by : Thomas Keymer
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne written by Thomas Keymer. This book was released on 2009-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides essays on the author of Tristram Shandy, his eighteenth-century context, his oeuvre and its reception.
Author : Timothy Haglund
Release : 2018-11-19
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 463/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune by : Timothy Haglund
Download or read book Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune written by Timothy Haglund. This book was released on 2018-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francois Rabelais wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel at the height of the Renaissance, when top-caliber thinkers aimed to unite the best of freshly rediscovered ancient Greco-Roman theory and practice and transform politics. Through his work, Rabelais offers his unique understanding of ancient philosophy and political thought. This book considers the role of fortune as the key to understanding Rabelais, much in the manner of contemporaries such as Machiavelli. The two could not be more different, however. Throughout his writings, Rabelais attempts to restore respect for the goddess Fortuna through a cheerful restatement of the case for the sober classical attitude toward future things. As Rabelais’s headstrong character Panurge seeks counsel regarding his marriage prospects, various authorities repeatedly warn him that cuckoldry and spousal abuse await. Panurge looks foolhardy during these admonitions. Far from affirming Machiavelli’s instruction, given in chapter 25 of The Prince, to beat fortune like a woman, Rabelais dramatizes Panurge learning that his future femme may beat him. Through this dramatization, Panurge begins to hear the merits of viewing fortune as an intractable part of life that must be shouldered with the proper inner disposition rather than as an object susceptible of human conquest.
