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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"François Rabelais"”.
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Voyage and Discovery: Myth and Memory of the Canadian New World
… savagery. When Jacques Cartier, André Thevet and François Rabelais' Pantagruel set sail from France towards the new continent, whether to search for the infamous northwestern passage, or as a kind of early modern ethnographer or on a quest for the Word of the Oracle of the Holy Bottle, parts of …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
… of the mundane perspective in the novels of François Rabelais and the essays of Michel de Montaigne. The mundane perspective calls us and our politics back down to earth. It is therefore of interest to scholars and citizens seeking to moderate the increasingly heated politics of contemporary …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …