Father Figures : : Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais / / Carla Freccero.
Father Figures offers a new reading of Rabelais's five books in terms of a key aspect of Renaissance culture—the concern with genealogy and particularly with filiation, the son's inheritance of a paternal legacy.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: The Author’s Excuse
- 1. Introduction: Allegories of Filiation
- 2. Pantagruel: Genealogy and Filial Succession
- 3. Gargantua: Inheriting the Father
- 4. Theleme: Temporality, Utopia, Supplement
- 5. The Quest
- Bibliography
- Index