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Author:   Bernd Renner
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   16
Weight:   1.187kg
ISBN:  

9789004360037

ISBN 10:   9004360034
Pages:   623
Publication Date:   02 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Abbreviations of the Most Common Journals Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Read Rabelais Now?  Bernd Renner Part 1 Life and Context 1 Rabelais in His Time  Mireille Huchon 2 Rabelais and Medicine  Claude La Charité 3 Rabelais and Religion  Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou 4 Rabelais and Politics  Michael Randall 5 Greco-Roman Tradition and Reception  Romain Menini 6 Rabelais and Eloquence  Daniel Ménager (†) 7 Rabelais, Giants, and Folklore  Walter Stephens 8 Rabelais and Travel Literature  Frank Lestringant 9 Rabelais and Theater  Jelle Koopmans Part 2 The Five Books 10 Pantagruel  Jean Charles Monferran and Marie-Claire Thomine 11 The Prequel Gargantua: An Original Reworking of Pantagruel  Nicolas Le Cadet 12 The Third Book  Diane Desrosiers 13 Interpreting the Fourth Book  Paul J. Smith 14 The Fifth and Last Book (1564)  Gérard Milhe Poutingon Part 3 Influence, Impact, and Style 15 At the Foot of the Letter, La Pantagrueline Prognostication  Tom Conley 16 Rabelais and Language  Marie-Luce Demonet 17 Missing Women: On the Riddle of Gender Relations in Rabelais’s Fiction  François Cornilliat 18 Between Laughter and Indignation: Rabelais and Militant Writing  Bernd Renner 19 Rabelaisian Humor  John Parkin 20 The World in Pantagruel’s Gut  Jeff Persels 21 Rabelais (Not) Translated (16th to 21st Centuries)  Elsa Kammerer Bibliography Index nominum

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From the Bainton Prize committee's report: This exemplary reference work provides a comprehensive, clearly structured, and well-written collection of essays that answer convincingly the introduction's title, Why Read Rabelais Now? Indeed, the volume is a celebration of Rabelaisian proportions, conveying a sense of the subject's wit and playfulness in the essays themselves. Additionally it provides access to the research of key scholars who typically do not write in English. (Marian Rothstein, who translated many of the essays, merits special recognition for her efforts in making this a highly readable work.) The introduction makes a strong case for Rabelais' enduring appeal and contemporary relevance. The three-part structure of the volume facilitates its use as a reference book with Part 1 focusing on many crucial literary and historical contexts (covering topics including - and going beyond - medicine, religion, politics, folklore, theatre, and reception); Part 2 incorporates major readings of each of the five books of the Pantagrueline Chronicles; and Part 3 moves into traditions of print and material culture, satire, humor, and translation. The contributors reflect an open-ended critical approach by stressing newer traditions of polysemy. The essays exemplify the erudition of the authors who write with a light touch and delight in language (their own and Rabelais'), capturing the spirit of Rabelais' literary achievement and humanist obsessions with language itself. It functions as a literary and cultural history that fully situates Rabelais within the sixteenth century, encouraging readers to (re-)engage with the works of an author who is notoriously obscure if read out of context and often neglected outside of France. Prize committee: Amanda Eurich (Western Washington University), Timothy Fehler (Furman University), and Elisabeth Chaghafi (University of Tubingen).

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Bernd Renner, Ph.D. (Princeton, 2000) is Professor of French at CUNY (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center). He has published three books and numerous articles on early modern literature, most notably on Rabelais, on Marot, and on satire.

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