The Rabelaisian mythologies
Author Max Gauna has contributed to Rabelaisian studies an analysis of the author's four authentic novels, considered in the light of his own description of them as mythologies. In the preface, Gauna remarks that such an enterprise requires attention to meaning and recognizes that meaning itself is called into question by much of postmodernist criticism, especially deconstruction. He also observes that deconstruction impinges on Rabelaisian criticism with particular force insofar as it may be seen to derive from the doctrines of the classical sophists as they are depicted in the Platonic dialogues, which themselves are an inspiration for author Rabelais
Print Book, English, ©1996
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, Madison, London, ©1996
293 pages ; 24 cm
9780838636312, 0838636314
32891242
1. Pantagruel
2. Gargantua
3. The Tiers Livre
4. The Quart Livre