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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. In The Introduction, Gauna Relates The Question Of Critical Ideology To The Age-old Philosophical Dialectic Of The One And The Many. He Shows How Rabelais's Work Exemplifies The Tensions Of That Dialectic In A Highly Significant Way, In That The Multiform Exuberance Of The Writing May Be Seen To Play Against Its Philosophical Tenor, Which Espouses Wholeheartedly The Cause Of The One Against The Many. He Then Considers The Question Of Mythology And Suggests That Rabelais's Stories May Properly Be Seen As Philosophical Rhetoric, Or T

Author

Max Gauna

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838636312

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Humanities