Enter Rabelais, laughing / Barbara C. Bowen.

Author/creator Bowen, Barbara C.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxv, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

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 -- Narrative laughter -- Laughter on 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index.
LCCN 98008865
ISBN0826513069 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ1694 .B63 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold