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
| 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 |