Rabelais''s Carnival - Text, Context, Metatext

"Kinser proposes a very persuasive post-Bakhtinian approach to Rabelais's novel and its relation to the carnival. His new historical epistemology, emphasizing as it does the genetic function of an archival 'metatext,' is compatible with a sophisticated semiotic analysis of the Rabelaisian text. This is a timely, erudite and subtle book which bases its theoretical arguments on solid documentary and textual evidence."—Michel Beaujour, New York University

About the author

Samuel Kinser is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University. He is author of four previous books, incluing Carnival American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Kinser, Kinser Samuel
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780520306158
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30615-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers