| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 230 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- How rabelaisian is Rabelais? -- Laugh, and the world laughs with you -- French literary laughter -- Rire est le propre de l'homme -- Laughing Rabelais -- 'Literary' genres -- Epic and mock-epic laughter -- Laughter stage -- From humanism to trivial pursuit -- Humanist facetiae -- Reformation satire -- The library of Saint-Victor -- Rabelais and rhetoric -- Panurge orator : The Parisian lady -- Panurge orator : The praise of debts -- Doctor Rabelais -- Therapeutic laughter -- Comic diet -- Law and medicine -- Roman and canon law -- Rabelais and law -- Bridoye -- Envoi -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Bibliography. |
| Subject |
Rabelais, Francois, approximately 1490-1553? -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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| ISBN |
0826513069 (alk. paper) |
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