{"product_id":"enter-rabelais-laughing-hardcover","title":"Enter Rabelais, Laughing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara C. Bowen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancois Rabelais is a difficult and often misunderstood author, whose reputation for coarse \"Rabelaisian\" jesting and \"Gargantuan\" indulgence in food, drink, and sex is highly misleading. He was in fact a committed humanist who expressed strong views on religion, good government, education, and much more through the mock-heroic adventures of his giants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile most books about Rabelais have relatively little to say about his comedic genius, \u003ci\u003eEnter Rabelais, Laughing\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the many sides of Rabelais's humor, focusing on why his writing was so hilariously funny to sixteenth-century readers. The author begins by discussing how the Renaissance defined laughter and situates Rabelais in a long tradition of literary laughter. Subsequent chapters examine specific contexts relevant to Gargantua and Pantagruel, beginning with the comic aspects of epic, chronicle, mock-epic, and farce, and proceeding to Renaissance and Reformation humanist satire, rhetoric, medicine, and law. All of these chapters combine information, much of it new, on the humanist message Rabelais wanted to convey to his readers, with an analysis of how he used his wit to reinforce his message.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRarely is a writer's work treated in such illuminating detail. On a broad level, \u003ci\u003eEnter Rabelais, Laughing\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an excellent introduction to French Renaissance literature and exhibits a remarkably charming and lucid writing style, free of jargon. To Rabelais scholars in particular it offers a thorough and innovative analysis that corrects misconceptions and questions commonly held views.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53425833083187,"sku":"9780826513069","price":150.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ws2vLE5pWL9780826513069.webp?v=1780524411","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/enter-rabelais-laughing-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}