Rabelais: A Critical Study in Prose Fiction

by Dorothy Gabe Coleman

A study of Rabelais (?1494-1553) as a literary artist giving special attention to the form and language of his fiction. Coleman uses a genuinely literary approach, using some of the techniques of stylistic analysis. She avoids the two extremes of approaching Rabelais either as a solemn sixteenth-century humanist who expressed profound truths in simple allegories or as a mere joker, drunk with words. Instead she sees him as finding a particular form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521294584
• ISBN13: 9780521294584
• Release Date: February 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"