Approaches to Teaching the Works of Francois Rabelais

Informationen zum Autor Todd W. Reeser is associate professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture and Masculinities in Theory . Floyd Gray is professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Le style de Montaigne , Rabelais et l'écriture , Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing , and La renaissance des mots Klappentext The works of Fran ois Rabelais--Gargantua, Pantagruel, the Tiers livre, and the Quart livre--embody the Renaissance spirit of discovery and are crucial to the development of early modern prose and to the birth of the novel. Rabelais's exuberant satire deals not only with the major cultural and intellectual issues of his time but also with issues of interest to students today. This volume suggests the materials that can be used in teaching Rabelais: editions, translations, criticism, Web sites, music, artwork, and films. The volume's essays present strategies for the classroom, discussing the classical and biblical allusions; the context of humanism and evangelical reform; various themes (giants, monsters, war); both feminism and masculinity as vexing subjects; Rabelais's erudition; and the challenges of teaching his inventive language, his ambiguity, and his scatology.

Product details

• Authors: Todd W. (EDT) Reeser
• Assisted by: Floyd Gray (Editor), Todd Reeser (Editor), Todd W. Reeser (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9781603290975
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-097-5
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 116; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 116
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies