The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's «Quart Livre» by Riggs, Larry

The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's «Quart Livre» (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820423630)

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The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's «Quart Livre» by Riggs, Larry

The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's «Quart Livre»

$49.95
The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's «Quart Livre» by Riggs, Larry

The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's «Quart Livre»

$49.95
Format: Hardcover
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While François Rabelais's Quart Livre is less well-known than his more famous texts, Pantagruel and Gargantua, its rich themes and eclectic style make it arguably his most intriguing. The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's Quart Livre analyzes Rabelais's presentation of alternately comical and grotesque insular communities in the Quart Livre. By considering all the work's episodes and not just its famous few, it demonstrates that Rabelais's final work maintains the optimistic and evangelical traits of early French Renaissance writings while still revealing the concern and despair provoked by the impending Religious Wars. It further examines the text's central themes of utopia and exile, significant leitmotifs in many Renaissance texts.

Author: Larry Riggs,Margaret B. Harp
ISBN-10: 0820423637
ISBN-13: 9780820423630
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1997
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
By Larry Riggs
By Larry Riggs
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The Author: Margaret Broom Harp is an assistant professor of French at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her Ph.D. in French from Tulane University. Her published works include studies of François Rabelais's ancillary texts, the almanacs.

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