TITLE   Rabelais & His World
AUTHOR   BAKHTIN, Mikhail
DESCRIPTION   This classic work by the Russian philosopher & literary theorist examines popular humour & folk culture in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance, especially the world of Carnival (the symbolic destruction of authority & official culture & the assertion of popular renewal), as depicted in the novels of Rabelais. A mjor contribution to the poetics of the novel & a critique -by-implication of the degeneration of the Russian revolution under Stalin.
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PUBLISHER   Indiana Uni, 1984
CATEGORY   literary 
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