Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 3.

This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World.

We will discuss chapter One: Rabelais in the History of Laughter:
on mediaeval humour: pp. 96-103;
on obscenity: pp.109-110;
Rabelais and revolution: p. 119;
on seriousness: pp. 122-124;
on the belly: pp. 126-127;
on the historicity of jokes: pp. 134-136;
Rabelais’s laughter: pp. 140-144.

These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month.

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