{"product_id":"rabelais-and-bakhtin-richard-m-berrong-9780803262614","title":"Rabelais and Bakhtin: Popular Culture in Gargantua and Pantagruel","description":"In \u003ci\u003eRabelais and Bakhtin\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard M. Berrong demonstrates both the historical and textual weaknesses of the argument advanced by Mikhail Bakhtin and his influential study \u003ci\u003eRabelais and His World.\u003c\/i\u003e The publication of Bakhtin's book in the West in the late 1960s brought both Rabelais and Bakhtin to the attention of students interested in the \"New Criticism\" in literature. Bakhtin agrued that the key to Rabelais's narratives was to be found in their language of popular culture, which was intended to free his readers from the ideological \"prison house\" of official, establishment discourse; to provide them with a nonofficial perspective from which to view--and combat--the establishment and its institutions. \u003cp\u003eSince the publication of Bakhtin's study, scholars such as Peter Burke, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Carlo Ginzburg have shown that the relationship of the upper classes to popular culture changed in the first half of the sixteenth century. Previously these classes had participated fully in the culture of the people (while adhering to their own), but at that time they undertook to exclude popular culture from their lives and from their world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his refutation of Bakhtin's thesis, Berrong demonstrates the complex and shifting role of popular culture in Rabelais's narratives. His conclusions should interest not only readers of \u003ci\u003eGargantua and Pantagruel\u003c\/i\u003e but all students of the sixteenth century, since the use and exclusion of popular culture is an issue in the study of many of the writers, artists, and composers of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard M. Berrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803262612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803262614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Richard M. Berrong","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120244781311,"sku":"9780803262614","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f93e4e89-b40f-49bc-a058-633cfb7920dd.jpg?v=1687413283","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rabelais-and-bakhtin-richard-m-berrong-9780803262614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}