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Carla Freccero.
Father Figures: Genealogy and Narrative Structure in Rabelais.
Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1991.
ISBN 0801425549.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 145×222×23mm.
Page count: xiii,213pp.
Main language: English; quotations given with a following translation.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is missing; some light foxing on the page edges; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.50
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $52.50]
Weight without packaging: 486g.

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Contents: Prologue — the author’s excuse; Allegories of filiation; Pantagruel — genealogy & filial succession; Gargantua — inheriting the father; Thélème — temporality, Utopia, supplement; the quest.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 15pp
Index: yes

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