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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A Brandeis SupremeAmherst A001010
Bowdoin AClark A001010
BU BDiamond Brandeis001010
CarabrandeisHarvard A001010
Northeastern ATufts A001010
MIT ATufts B1001020
Bowdoin BWilliams A001010
Yale ABrandeises Brew10101030
Yale BBoston University A1001020
Yale CBrown A001010