Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais

Carla Freccero

Published by Cornell University Press 1991

Father Figures

Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais

Carla Freccero

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501734663

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Carla Freccero teaches French and Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue: The Author’s Excuse Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: Allegories of Filiation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Pantagruel: Genealogy and Filial Succession Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
3. Gargantua: Inheriting the Father Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. Theleme: Temporality, Utopia, Supplement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
5. The Quest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 30, 2019
ISBN: 9781501734663