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Article: Francois rabelais: Critical Assessments.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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The volume edited by Carron contains twelve articles distributed among three wittily titled sections: "Bones of Contention," "Marrows of Discontent," and "Medullaires." According to .the editor, we have here a coherent collection of up-to-date, interdisciplinary studies by "the essential core of Rabelais specialists" (x). Unfortunately, the book does not entirely live up to Carron's confident presentation of it.
If there were an essential core of Rabelais specialists (essential to whom?), it would surely include Demerson, Tournon, Weinberg, and several others not present in this book; it would probably not include Jean-Claude Margolin, a distinguished Erasmian whose ...