Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext

By Samuel Kinser

Book Overview

How is it possible, after four centuries, that a major episode in Rabelais's novels remains systematically misread? The episode, which playfully and grotesquely treats the relation of Carnival to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065220
• ISBN13: 9780520065222
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.