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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Cultural Production as a Natural Process: An Alternative Topography
- Ingenuity in Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Lyon-Paris, 1530-50
- 2: A Diagnostic in Docility: Quick-Wittedness and Natural Copia in the Torchecul episode (Gargantua XIII)
- 3: Popemaniacs (1). Idolatrous Ingenuity: Diseased Animation and Dædalic Art (Quart livre XLVIII-L)
- 4: Popemaniacs (2). Grotesque Reflections on Social Ingenuity: Conversation, Gastronomy, Ceremonies. (Quart livre LI-LIV)
- En Marge 1
- Groignet, The Slashing Tailor. Rabelais's Historiographical Grotesque Against Raphaël's Vatican Stanze
- 5: The Fuel of Engines: The Encounter with Gaster (Quart livre LVII-LXII)
- En Marge 2
- Ingenuity and the Needful, Illiberal Roots of Order: A Rabelaisian Reading of Dürer's Grotesque Trophies
- 6: The Breath and the Breeze. Experiencing Death in the Macræons episode (Quart livre XXV-XXVIII)
- 7: Animation and the Matter of Voice: The Thawing Words episode (Quart livre LV-LVI)
- En Fin. Rabelais and Renaissance Grotesque Ornament
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Raphaële Garrod is tutorial fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD in early modern French from Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to several postdoctoral positions in Cambridge and Australia. She was a secondary-school teacher in France before embarking on postgraduate studies in the UK.
Her current work focuses on conceptions and representations of the human at the intersection between early modern intellectual history (especially history of science) and poetics in XVIth- and XVIIth-French and European texts.
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre.
