· 2020· Book chapter

Rabelais and his world

Mikhail Bakhtin, H. Iswolsky

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Rabelais's work integrates themes of "uncrowning" and "carnivalesque" imagery, drawing from both living popular traditions and ancient scholarly rituals like the Saturnalia.

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