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This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (–) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of /5(7).  · RABELAIS AND HIS WORLD BY MIKHAIL BAKHTIN. A very insightful study of Rabelais’s work in the medieval period and the Renaissance is presented by literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his book Rabelais and his World. The volume consists of a Foreword by Krystyna Pomorska; a substantial introduction; and seven long chapters in which the author discusses several topics like Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Passages taken from Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World. Trans. by Helene Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (). For a fuller understanding of Bakhtin's work one should read the work in full, but I hope the following will serve to introduce Bakhtin's concepts to beginning students of renaisance drama.

Literature Review: Mikhail Bakhtin - Rabelais and His World. As I am beginning to write the first tentative words of my Masters' Dissertation, I am leaning heavily on my core source text, Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World;[1] a literary critique of much earlier work by François Rabelais, a French Renaissance writer. It can do this, as Bakhtin shows in Rabelais and his World (), by mobilizing humour, satire, and grotesquery in all its forms, but especially if it has to do with the body and bodily functions. François Rabelais, a French author from the early s, is regarded by Bakhtin as an almost perfect exponent of carnivalesque writing. Rabelais and His World (Russian: Творчество Франсуа Рабле и народная культура средневековья и Ренессанса, Tvorčestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaja kul'tura srednevekov'ja i Renessansa; ) is a scholarly work by the 20th century Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail www.doorway.ru is considered to be a classic of Renaissance.

Rabelais and His World is a work of literary criticism by Russian academic Mikhail Bakhtin, first published in English in The book centers on a close reading of the novels of sixteenth-century French author François Rabelais, particularly the sequence of novels known as Gargantua and Pantagruel. Passages taken from Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World. Trans. by Helene Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (). For a fuller understanding of Bakhtin's work one should read the work in full, but I hope the following will serve to introduce Bakhtin's concepts to beginning students of renaisance drama. Bakhtin writes that in the fiction of Rabelais, there is an inordinate excess of bodily excretions, all of which must have been profoundly shocking to the prim and sedate readers of Bakhtin's own day. but not, he notes, to the more liberated readers of Rabelais' day. Bakhtin describes a society of bluenoses just before and after Rabelais' time in which the dominant ruling classes surely took egregious offense at the very notion that an oppressed majority of commoners would dare to upbraid.