The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's Quart Livre.(Review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Zegura, Elizabeth Chesney | COPYRIGHT 1998 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Margaret Broom Harp. The Portrayal of Community in Rabelais's Quart Livre.

NY: Peter Lang, 1997. 130 pp. $36.95.

Even for veteran readers of Rabelais's mock epic, the episodic Quart Livre, completed in 1552, remains the most difficult and intriguing volume in the series. Following on the heels of the Third Book (1546), which chronicles Panurge's inquiry into whether he should marry, the Quart Livre extends this matrimonial quest into the geographical beyond, ...

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