François Rabelais - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A book titled for this author discusses the “language of the marketplace.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who titles that book analyzing the “grotesque” and “carnivalesque” subtexts. In a satirical novel by this author, one of the two title characters founds the Abbey of Thélème (“tea-LEM”) with the motto “do what thou wilt.”

ANSWER: François Rabelais [accept Rabelais and His World] (The novel is Gargantua and Pantagruel.)

[10h] This writer outlined the concepts of “grotesque” and “carnivalesque” in the book Rabelais and His World. This literary theorist also coined the terms “heteroglossia” and “chronotope” in The Dialogic Imagination.

ANSWER: Mikhail Bakhtin

[10e] The introduction to Rabelais and His World opens by quoting Vissarion Belinsky’s claim that Rabelais is the 16th-century version of this other author. This later French author wrote the novel Candide.

ANSWER: Voltaire [or François-Marie Arouet]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	100%	43%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	0%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	88%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	18.00	100%	40%	40%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford L	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Princeton A	Bard A	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Hopkins B	0	0	10	10
Penn State B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Lehigh A	10	0	10	20
Penn B	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Penn State A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Miami	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	UChicago B	0	0	10	10
UChicago D	Purdue D	0	0	10	10
UChicago A	SIUE A	0	10	10	20
UIUC A	WashU B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	WashU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU A (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	CWRU C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Michigan State C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Michigan State B (UG)	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	0	0	10	10
Arkansas	Colorado College	0	0	0	0
Central Oklahoma	Iowa	10	10	10	30
McGill E	Vassar B	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State	Texas B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	WUSTL A	10	0	10	20
Oregon State	Texas D	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Missouri	10	10	10	30
Ole Miss	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech A	UF B	0	0	10	10
UF A	Florida Tech B	10	10	10	30
UCF A	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UF C	UF E	0	0	10	10
UF F	Florida State University A	0	0	0	0
Birmingham	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Edinburgh	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Bristol B	LSE B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Vanderbilt	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	10	10	30