Question
This character steals the bells of the Cathedral of Our Lady so that he can put them on his horse’s neck. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who builds the Abbey of Thélème (“tay-LEM”). This character titles one book in the pentalogy he appears in and fathers a character whose birth kills this character’s wife, Badbeck.
ANSWER: Gargantua [or The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel; reject “Pantagruel”]
[10e] François Rabelais’s characters Gargantua and Pantagruel are this type of being. Like the Titans, these beings are children of Gaia who battle the Olympians in Greek myth.
ANSWER: giants [or gigantes; accept the Gigantomachy]
[10h] Two answers required. In Rabelais and His World, critic Mikhail Bakhtin identifies these two subtexts in Gargantua and Pantagruel. One of them is a social institution associated with collectivity, and the other is a literary mode associated with the open and the penetrative.
ANSWER: carnival AND grotesque realism [accept in either order; accept carnivalesque in place of “carnival”; accept grotesque body in place of “grotesque realism”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 29% | 29% |