Gargantua and Pantagruel illustrated by Gustave Doré
Surreal Documents writes[1]:
Genealogically, one can link the Medieval coq-à-l’âne to the Renaissance works of Rabelais, to Paul Scheerbart, Christian Morgenstern, Lewis Carroll, Pétrus Borel, Molière, Quirinus Kuhlmann, the Russian and Italian Futurists, and the Dadaists – and from there to ‘Les Légions Noires‘.
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Surprisingly, Jahsonic hasn’t posted yet about Mikhail Bakhtin‘s Rabelais and His World…
As I’ve commented on Surreal Documents’ blog, I did “blog” on Rabelais and Bakthin back in 2004, but that was before I started the WordPress blog.
Of course it is impermissible that querying Rabelais on this blog brings up naught. Rabelais is canonical to me and my anthology which celebrates laughter and its rhizomatic proxies (theory of laughter, A History of Derision, laughter in literature, history of laughter; (too much overlap there, I will have to sort it out))
To set the omission straight, here is the list of Jahsonic’s canon. A list of individuals who have been formative and continue to be formative. They comprise of 173 people.
For those of you wondering how I arrived at the canon, here is the list of themes and sensibilities that engendered it quite naturally:
ABCDE |
E cont.FGHIKLMNO |
O cont.QRSTU |
Wonderful list! Maybe every blogger should be required to provide one – of exactly 173 names, of course, as I’m sure that has some mystical/alchemical relevance. But even more than the names of mentors and inspirations, I like the index of themes and sensibilities. Thank you.
Maybe every blogger should be required to provide one
Yes, I agree, and every critic too, just to know where they are “coming from”. I only like to do appreciative criticism and it is based on a canon. Which does not mean that everything which fits the “themes and sensibilities” will be approved of … but it helps.
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