-
considerably more
erudite in tone. His
literary legacy is such that the word
Rabelaisian designates something that is "marked by
gross robust humor, extravagance...
- and
presents European realities in a new and
strange light.
While the
Rabelaisian vocabulary demonstrates a
technical mastery of
nautical knowledge, the...
- arms") (1975) is a
postmodernist fiction written as a
combination of
Rabelaisian linguistic feast and a
treatise on the
historical destiny of
Croats in...
-
describes the
story as
lacking the
burlesque humor of
Tortilla Flat, the
Rabelaisian humor of "St. Katy the Virgin," the folk
humor of The
Grapes of Wrath...
-
Danish biography comments of her
domestic life: "The
scene is
classic Rabelaisian more than
anything else,
harkening back to the
Middle Ages when people...
- New York
Times obituary described him via a
character sketch: He was a
Rabelaisian figure in the
Senate and in life,
instantly recognizable by his shock...
- the new year has produced" and wrote: "It goes
after its
laughs with
Rabelaisian gusto, a
dialogic scorn of the
grammatical properties and an impolite...
-
figure in the
world of the arts. In a
modern account, he was
described as
Rabelaisian, bawdy, witty, robust, wild, lusty, protean, lecherous, luscious, and...
- writing, but
Harington was
inclined to
overstep the mark in his
somewhat Rabelaisian and
occasionally risqué pieces. His
attempt at a
translation of Ariosto's...
-
goodness of the nose".
Sterne had
written an
earlier piece called A
Rabelaisian Fragment that
indicates his
familiarity with the work of the
French monk...
