Category Archives: Texts

Fabrizio Riccardi – Pantagruel

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Swany

Works by Fabrizio Riccardi based on Les Songes Drolatiques.

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Tiers livre des faictz et dictz Heroïques du noble Pantagruel

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Swany

Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes: Auteur : Rabelais, François Titre : Tiers livre des faictz et dictz heroïques du noble Pantagruel Imprimeur : Wechel, Chrétien Libraire : Wechel, Chrétien Date : 1546 Format : 4° Collation : 184 f. ; italique, … Continue reading →

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François Desprez – The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Swany

Monser Brains: “Included here are 100 of the 120 woodcuts of various bizarre characters from “Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel” translated into English as “The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel” published in 1565. A detailed article on the woodcuts can be … Continue reading →

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Salvador Dali – Les Songs (Songes) Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Swany

Monster Brains: Images from Dreams of Pantagruel, a portfolio of lithographs by Salvador Dali (1973) based on Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. Also available as a set on Flickr. Prints are available for sale at the Lockport Street Gallery: In … Continue reading →

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Translating Rabelais: Sterne, Motteux, and the Culture of Politeness

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Swany

Translation and Literature: Article available for rent.

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Rabelais in English Literature

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Swany

Google Books: Rabelais in English Literature, Huntington Brown, Harvard University Press, 1933

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Sterne’s use of the Motteux-Ozell “Rabelais”

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Swany

Notes & Queries, February 1978. “The present record confines itself to a lising of Sterne’s burrowings from the Motteux-Ozell translation of Rabelais. On page four of some leaves inserted before the title page to volume IV Ferrers remarks, with some … Continue reading →

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History of Literature: Francois Rabelais

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Swany

History of Literature: Includes introduction and brief biography by M.A. Screech, Urquhart/Motteux translation.

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Cotgrave’s 1611 French/English Dictionary

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Swany

Play by Mail: Greg Lindahl: Assembled from two scans in the French National Library by Greg Lindahl. Search for a particular French word.

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French Renaissance Prose: Rabelais and Montaigne

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Swany

Encyclopedia of Literature (J. Rank Org): Survey of translations of Rabelais. “Urquhart’s rendering is rich, inaccurate, at times barely comprehensible… “That of W. F. Smith, an example of what has been called the Victorian Tudor style… a highly literal, archaizing … Continue reading →

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