Status Updates From Rabelais and His World

“This old authority and truth pretend to be absolute… they do not see themselves in the mirror of time, do not perceive their own origin, limitations and end; they do not recognize their own ridiculous faces or the comic nature of their pretensions to eternity and immutability. And thus these personages come to the end of their role still serious, although their spectators have been laughing for a long time.”

finally getting started on this for thesis!! im so happy that its everything i thought it would be and wanted it to be!! it’ll definitely be the core theoretical basis for my work yippie! its so reassuring to see that my crazy research idea is actually supported in existing scholarship