One part of this work traces the phrase of "the sphere, whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere" down to the title figure from Hermes Trismegestus.
One part of this work traces the phrase of "the sphere, whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere" down to the title figure from Hermes Trismegestus. One concept introduced in this work is used to describe the "valorization" of life force and is argued to have originated from "the gay relativity" around the time of the Feast of the Circumcision. The complement to that idea in this work is illustrated by the preface to Hugo's Cromwell, which he argues depicts the "formless and terrifying." This work begins with an Alexander Herzen quote to suggest an interest in writing a "history of laughter" and also presents the two tropes of "carnivalesque" and "grotestque" in the writings of the title author. For 10 points, name this text written before its author's The Dialogic Imagination that analyzes readings of Gargantua and Pantagruel, a work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
One part of this work traces the phrase of "the sphere, whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere" down to the title figure from Hermes Trismegestus.
Rabelais and His World