![]() The most important of these concepts are “carnival” (or “the carnivalesque”), which is a social mode of being grounded in folk tradition, and “grotesque realism,” a literary style that explores the meaning of the body in literature and society. Through this reading, Bakhtin develops several concepts, which are now regarded as essential to the study of Rabelais, and to the study of Renaissance social and literary contexts more broadly. Bakhtin foregrounds sections of Rabelais’s novels previously suppressed or ignored, subjecting the novelist’s entire oeuvre to an encyclopedic close reading. According to Bakhtin, despite Rabelais’s central place in the history of French and European literature, the novelist’s work has been substantially misunderstood in the centuries since his death. Mikhail Bakhtin Rabelais and His World ISBN 13: 9780253203410 Rabelais and His World Mikhail Bakhtin 4. 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. ![]() Rabelais and His World is a 1965 work of literary criticism by Russian academic Mikhail Bakhtin, first published in English in 1968. ![]()
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