Bowen, Barbara C.. Enter Rabelais, laughing

Folger bibliographic ID: 101863
Folger call number: PQ1694 .B63 1998
Folger holdings ID: 101034

Edition

1st ed

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index

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

Extended title: Enter Rabelais, laughing / Barbara C. Bowen

Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553? Comic, The, in literature

author: Bowen, Barbara C.
subject: Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?