Rabelais and His World
Douban
ISBN: 9780253203410
author:
Mikhail Bakhtin
translator:
Helene Iswolsky
publishing house:
Indiana University Press
publication date: 1984
-9
price: GBP 12.50
number of pages: 510
Mikhail Bakhtin Helene Iswolsky
overview
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
