The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais PDF eBook |
Author | John O'Brien |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052186786X |
An accessible, readable account of Rabelais, his work, his thought and his world.
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Lyons |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107036046 |
A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.
A Companion to François Rabelais
Title | A Companion to François Rabelais PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Renner |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 639 |
Release | 2021-08-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004460233 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Keymer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2009-08-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521849721 |
This Companion provides essays on the author of Tristram Shandy, his eighteenth-century context, his oeuvre and its reception.
Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune
Title | Rabelais’s Contempt for Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Haglund |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2018-11-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1498575463 |
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.
Renaissance Responses to Technological Change
Title | Renaissance Responses to Technological Change PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila J. Nayar |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2018-10-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319968998 |
This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.
Rabelais, the Five Books and Minor Writings Together with Letters and Documents Illustrating His Life
Title | Rabelais, the Five Books and Minor Writings Together with Letters and Documents Illustrating His Life PDF eBook |
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