‘I speak like John about the Apocalypse’: Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction
Can fictions ‘prophesy’? What relationship might they have to apocalypse, in the sense of both the end of the world and also revelation? These questions took on particular weight in the period of the Renaissance and Reformation, since both apocalyptic and prophetic discourses in general and also spe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Literature and theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 417-438 |
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| Summary: | Can fictions ‘prophesy’? What relationship might they have to apocalypse, in the sense of both the end of the world and also revelation? These questions took on particular weight in the period of the Renaissance and Reformation, since both apocalyptic and prophetic discourses in general and also specifically poetic prophecy acquired renewed vigour. This essay, which is part of a larger project addressing these questions, explores them in relation to the comic fictions of François Rabelais. Rabelais's writing offers an insight into what could be done with ‘poetic’ prophecy in an apocalyptic age. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs050 |