CRITICISM

Bowen, Barbara C. Enter Rabelais, Laughing. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1998, 230 p.

Considers the humorous and comical elements in Rabelais's writings.

Frame, Donald M. Introduction to The Complete Works of François Rabelais, edited by Donald M. Frame, pp. xxvii-xlvii. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Discusses Rabelais's life and his influence on literature.

Hoffmann, George. “Neither One Nor the Other and Both Together.” Etudes Rabelaisiennes XXV (1991): 79-90.

Remarks on Rabelais's use of medieval logic in the Tiers Livre.

Kinser, Samuel. Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, 293 p.

Responds to Mikhail Bakhtin's arguments on carnivalesque texts by applying them to the Quart Livre.

Marshall, F. W. “The Great Allegory.” Australian Journal of French Studies XXVI, No. 1 (January-April 1989): 12-51.

Attempts to deconstruct the underlying meaning of the text which comprises the Great Allegory in the Tiers, Quart, and Quint Livres.

McMahon, Elise-Noel. “Gargantua, Pantagruel, and Renaissance Cooking Tracts: Texts for Consumption.” Neophilologus 76, No. 2 (1992): 186-97.

Considers the influence of cookbooks and Renaissance thought regarding food on Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Nichols, Fred J. “Generating the Unwritten Text: The Case of Rabelais.” L’Esprit Createur XXVIII, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 7-17.

Investigates the significance of allusions in Rabelais's works to incidents which are never fully described in the texts.

Persels, Jeffery C. “Bragueta Humanistica, or Humanism's Codpiece.” Sixteenth Century Journal XXVIII, No. 1 (Spring 1997): 79-99.

Considers the relationship between masculinity and humanist thought in Pantagruel.

Rigolot, François. “Rabelais's Laurel for Glory: A Further Study of the ‘Pantagrulion’.” Renaissance Quarterly XLII, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 60-77.

Analyzes the conclusion to the Tiers Livre in terms of humanism, satire, and Renaissance lyrical ideology.

Schwartz, Jerome. “The Tiers Livre.” In Irony and Ideology in Rabelais: Structures of Subversion, pp. 90-150. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Argues for a more complex, inclusive reading of Rabelais which is less reductionist and unifying.

Additional coverage of Rabelais's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Discovering Authors; Discovering Authors: British; Discovering Authors: Canadian; Discovering Authors Modules: Most-Studied Authors; and World Literature Criticism.