Rabelais and His World, Revised Edition

Foreword: Bakhtin’s Tricksterly Depths and the Laughing Grotesque, Caryl Emerson
Translator’s Preface: Putting Bakhtin’s Rabelais Back in Context

Rabelais and His World: The Work of François Rabelais and the Folk Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Introduction (Posing the Problem)
1 Rabelais in the History of Laughter
2 The Public-Square Word in Rabelais’s Novel
3 Folk-Festive Forms and Images in Rabelais’s Novel
4 Feasting Images in Rabelais
5 The Grotesque Image of the Body in Rabelais and Its Sources
6 Images of the Material-Bodily Nethers in Rabelais’s Novel
7 Rabelais’s Images and His Contemporary Reality

Addendum: Establishing Bakhtin’s Sources
Translator’s Notes
References
Index