Enter Rabelais, laughing / Barbara C. Bowen.

Author/creator Bowen, Barbara C.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press,
Descriptionxv, 230 p. ; 23 cm.
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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 -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Bibliography.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 98008865
ISBN0826513069 (alk. paper)

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