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The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's Quart Livre, Vol. 2  
Author: Margaret Broom Harp
ISBN: 0820423637
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's Quart Livre, Vol. 2

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's Quart Livre analyzes Rabelais's presentation of alternately comical and grotesque insular communities in the Quart Livre. By considering all the work's episodes and not just its famous few, it demonstrates that Rabelais's final work maintains the optimistic and evangelical traits of early French Renaissance writings while still revealing the concern and despair provoked by the impending Religious Wars. It further examines the text's central themes of utopia and exile, significant leitmotifs in many Renaissance texts.

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Analyzes the presentation of alternately comical and grotesque insular communities in a less well known text by the 16th-century French writer. By considering all the episodes rather than the famous few, demonstrates that Rabelais maintained the optimistic and evangelical traits of early French Renaissance writings but also expressed the concern and despair provoked by the impending religious conflicts. Quotations are in both French and English. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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