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Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention

Ingenious Animation

9780192866691
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Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention:: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelaiss Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in Rabelaisian scholarship between Rabelais lowly laughter and his high, erudite message and reassesses the Rabelaisian grotesque by highlighting its debts to grotesque ornament, this marginal yetomnipresent Renaissance visual art.Bodily functions are a trademark of Rabelais poetics. Scholarship has read them as signs of carnivalesque inversion, in line with the Bakhtinian grotesque, or of satirical degradation:: in both instances, the lowly is opposed to the high, the belly to the head. Yet for a physician like Rabelais, the head or the brain as the site of cognition is not opposed to what is below it:: the chest as the site of breathing, the belly and its nether regions as sites of nutrition and generation. InRenaissance medicine, these are integrated physiological systems whose products fuel each others operations-including cognition. Read through this lens and alongside his diagnosis of the healthy or diseased culture of his time-rotting scholasticism, the humanist digestion of the classical heritage, or the schismatic convulsions shaking Christianity-Rabelaiss fictions testify to his reflexive investigation into how culture results from physiological processes fuelling the inventive ability of the human animal, made manifest in pedagogical, artistic, mechanical, and spiritual inventions. They display the life-ratherthan the truth-of culture stemming from human ingenia, that is, wits conditioned by biological natures. While these might be idiosyncratic, their animation is fuelled and shaped by the food one eats, the air one breathes, the places one inhabit, the company one keeps.In this respect Rabelaisian fiction is grotesque in a period sense. With its emphasis on hybrid forms capturing the metamorphic powers of animation, grotesque ornament reflexively commented on the embodied inventive processes underpinning Renaissance mimesis. Rabelaiss fictions display a similar logic:: they foreground the inventive powers of ingenious animation and articulate reflexive, often ironic alternatives to the humanist views they alter:: a thoroughly embodied anthropology, a naturalistgenealogy of cultural production and transmission, a phantastical account of artistic invention as uncanny liveliness.
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OUP Oxford
102561
9780192866691
9780192866691

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Publication date
2025
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
336
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 234
  • Introduction; Cultural Production as a Natural Process: An Alternative Topography; Lyon-Paris: 1530-50. Ingenuity in Natural Philosophy and Medicine; A Diagnostic in Docility: Quick-Wittedness and Natural Copia in the Torchecul episode (Gargantua XIII); Popemaniacs (1). Idolatrous Ingenuity: Diseased Animation and D?dalic Art (Quart livre XLVIII-L); Popemaniacs (2). Grotesque Reflections on Social Ingenuity: Conversation, Gastronomy, Ceremonies. (Quart livre L-LIV); En Marge 1; Groignet, The Slashing Tailor. Rabelaiss Historiographical Grotesque Against Raphaëls Vatican Stanze; The Fuel of Engines: The Encounter with Gaster (Quart livre LVII-LXII); En Marge 2; Ingenuity and the Needful, Illiberal Roots of Order: a Rabelaisian Reading of Dürers Grotesque Trophies; The Breath and the Breeze. Experiencing Death in the Macr?ons episode (Quart livre XXV-XXVIII); Animation and the Matter of Voice: The Thawing Words episode (Quart livre LV-LVI); En Fin. Rabelais and Grotesque Ornament; Bibliography; Index;
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