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Rabelais and His World by Mihail Bahtin
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Rabelais and His World

by Mikhail Bakhtin (otherwise under Mihail Bahtin)

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Indiana Univ Pr (1984), Paperback, 510 pages

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This is Bakhtin at his best. His deep examination of the carnivalesque and the grotesque in Rabelais's work sheds great light on contemporary works of the bodily, for example Gravity's Rainbow. Not for the faint of heart, or the slight of mind, this is critical theory at its most critical. ( )
  ianwissman | May 25, 2009 |
Amazing book. ( )
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