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Rabelais and his world

Abstract
Abuse with uncrowning, as truth about old authority, about the dying world, is an organic part of Rabelais' system of images. It is combined with carnivalesque thrashings, with change of costume and travesty. Rabelais drew these images from the living popular-festive tradition of his time, but he was also well versed in the antique scholarly tradition of the Saturnalia, with its own rituals of tra...
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2020
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0.177

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Rabelais and his world

Rabelais and his world

Abstract
Abuse with uncrowning, as truth about old authority, about the dying world, is an organic part of Rabelais' system of images. It is combined with carnivalesque thrashings, with change of costume and travesty. Rabelais drew these images from the living popular-festive tradition of his time, but he was also well versed in the antique scholarly tradition of the Saturnalia, with its own rituals of tra...
Keywords
History

2020
Book-chapter
Publisher
2-Y Citation Average

0.177

Language