Title: Language and money in Rabelais
First published: 1996
Description: Combining speech act theory and economic history with the work of Marx, Foucault, and Goux, this study investigates representations of economic and linguistic exchanges in the novels of Rabelais in order to view the tensions within the society of Renaissance France. The various chapters critically examine the logic of substitution in the texts, the relationship between credit and the practice of interpretation, and Rabelais's thought on the status of language in the context of budding capitalism.
Subjects: Money in literature, Language, Literature and society, Economic history, Rabelais, francois, approximately 1490-1553?
Places: France
People: François Rabelais (ca. 1490-1553?)
Time periods: 16th century
LC classification: PQ1698 .L38 1996