Rabelais and his world
By: by Mikhail Bakhtin ; translated by Helène Iswolsky.
Edition: 1st Midland book ed.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Rabelais, Francois,  -- ca. 1490-1553?  -- Criticism and interpretation.
Work titles: Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kultura srednevekovia i Renessansa. 
Description: "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."--Publisher description.
Notes: Translation of: Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kultura srednevekovia i Renessansa.

Includes index.