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Author | : Alan Dean Foster |
Publisher | : Aspect |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2001-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0759520976 |
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After the all-powerful wizard Susnam Evyndd is defeated during battle with an evil clan of sorcerers, the world is plunged into darkness. If the spell is not quickly reversed, all plants will die off from lack of sun, until everything & everyone-is destroyed. Yet Evyndd's death sets off his last & greatest spell, transforming his household pets into humans. With Evyndd's instructions, the group sets out to return light to the world...but pursuing the missing light promises to be difficult & dangerous & carries no guarantee of success.
Author | : François Rabelais |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1955-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140440478 |
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This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven.
Author | : François Rabelais |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Gargantua (Legendary character) |
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Download The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Julian Stallabrass |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1996-06-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781859840368 |
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Rabelais’s tale the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are incomparable. In the old giant’s size, ubiquity, gluttony, vast knowledge and warlike nature, we can recognize qualities of our contemporary culture. In this brilliant polemic on our visual mass culture, Stallabrass argues that culture’s status as a commodity is the most important thing about it, affecting its form, its relation to the viewer and its ideology. The great diversity of choice masks the extent to which this choice is managed by an ever-shrinking number of powerful owners. Stallabrass shows how the consistent and unifying capitalist ideology of mass culture leads to an increasingly homogeneous identity among its consumers. Even in marginal and radical cultural activities, like graffiti writing, can be found the tyranny of the brand name and the reduction of the individual to a cipher. Starting with an analysis of subjects which concern specific groups—amateur photography, computer games and cyberspace—Stallabrass works out to wider aspects of the culture which affect everybody, including cars, shopping and television. Gargantua raises profound questions about the nature and direction of mass culture. It also raises a challenge to the postmodern theorists’ adherence to subjectivity, indeterminacy and political indifference. If manufactured subjectivities are always shot through with the objective, then their plurality may not be merely a colourful but meaningless postmodern smorgasbord, but rather the accurate reflection of our current cultural situation, and a map showing paths beyond it.
Author | : François Rabelais |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : François Rabelais |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 1162 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780520064010 |
Download The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents the complete works of French writer Francois Rabelais.
Author | : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253203410 |
Download Rabelais and His World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
Author | : Francois Rabelais |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 2006-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141935782 |
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The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.
Author | : François Rabelais |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 1105 |
Release | : 2020-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Gargantua and Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The book is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence.
Author | : François Rabelais |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1838 |
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