Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin, Mikhail Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin
Category: Literary Criticism

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.