A Companion to Francois Rabelais 9789004360037, 9789004460232, 9789004360

Table of contents :
List of Figures
Abbreviations of the Most Common Journals
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Why Read Rabelais Now? Bernd Renner
PART 1. Life and Context
1 Rabelais in His Time. Mireille Huchon
2 Rabelais and Medicine. Claude La Charité
3 Rabelais and Religion. Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou
4 Rabelais and Politics. Michael Randall
5 Greco-Roman Tradition and Reception. Romain Menini
6 Rabelais and Eloquence. Daniel Ménager (f)
7 Rabelais, Giants, and Folklore. Walter Stephens
8 Rabelais and Travel Literature. Frank Lestringant
9 Rabelais and Theatre. Jelle Koopmans
PART 2. The Five Books
10 Pantagruel. Jean-Charles Monferran and Marie-Claire Thomine
11 The Prequel Gargantua : An Original Reworking of Pantagruel. Nicolas Le Cadet
12 The Third Book. Diane Desrosiers
13 Interpreting the Quart Livre. Paul J. Smith
14 The Fifth and Last Book (1564). Gérard Milhe Poutingon
PART 3. Influence, Impact, and Style
15 At the Foot of the Letter, La Pantagrueline Prognostication. Tom Conley
16 Rabelais and Language. Marie-Luce Demonet
17 Missing Women: On the Riddle of Gender Relations in Rabelais’s Fiction. François Cornilliat
18 Between Laughter and Indignation: Rabelais and Militant Writing. Bernd Renner
19 Rabelaisian Humor. John Parkin
20 The World in Pantagruel’s Gut. Jeff Persels
21 Rabelais (Not) Translated (16th-21st Centuries). Elsa Kammerer
Bibliography
Index of Primary Texts
Index of Secondary Texts

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