François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation

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Raphaële Garrod (Associate Professor of French, Associate Professor of French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention

Ingenious Animation

Raphaële Garrod (Associate Professor of French, Associate Professor of French, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
25 April 2025

Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre.

By: Raphaële Garrod (Associate Professor of French Associate Professor of French Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780192866691
ISBN 10: 0192866699
Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 25 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Cultural Production as a Natural Process: An Alternative Topography 1: Lyon-Paris: 1530-50. Ingenuity in Natural Philosophy and Medicine 2: A Diagnostic in Docility: Quick-Wittedness and Natural Copia in the Torchecul episode (Gargantua XIII) 3: Popemaniacs (1). Idolatrous Ingenuity: Diseased Animation and Dædalic Art (Quart livre XLVIII-L) 4: Popemaniacs (2). Grotesque Reflections on Social Ingenuity: Conversation, Gastronomy, Ceremonies. (Quart livre L-LIV) En Marge 1 Groignet, The Slashing Tailor. Rabelais's Historiographical Grotesque Against Raphaël's Vatican Stanze 5: 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 Dürer's Grotesque Trophies 6: The Breath and the Breeze. Experiencing Death in the Macræons episode (Quart livre XXV-XXVIII) 7: Animation and the Matter of Voice: The Thawing Words episode (Quart livre LV-LVI) En Fin. Rabelais and Grotesque Ornament Bibliography Index

Raphaële Garrod is tutorial fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford. She obtained her PhD in early modern French from Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to several postdoctoral positions in Cambridge and Australia. She was a secondary-school teacher in France before embarking on postgraduate studies in the UK. Her current work focuses on conceptions and representations of the human at the intersection between early modern intellectual history (especially history of science) and poetics in XVIth- and XVIIth-French and European texts.