Author: Chesney, Elizabeth A.
Title: The Countervoyage of Rabelais and Ariosto: A Comparative Reading of Two Renaissance Mock Epics
Description: Durham, Duke University Press, 1982. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, vii,232 pp. Minor rubbing, slight side-page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Voyage: The Geographical Quest; Spiritual Symbolism; Guideposts & Steppingstones; Myth & Fantasy: Gods, Heroes, & Beasts; The Deformation of Standard Quest Forms; The Dialectics of Fact & Fantasy; The Narrator: The Master Showman, Your Humble Servant; The King of Clowns & His Multiple Masks; Narcissus Speaks; Time & Art: From Janus's Point of View; The Existential Experience; The Artistic Experiment; Folly: On the Other Side of Reason; Of Wise Men & Fools; A Convergence of Meaning & Madness; Conclusion.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Comparative, Renaissance, Literature, Lodovico Ariosto, Francois Rabelais, French, Italian, Roland