While a number of more extensive academic posts languish as drafts during these midterm weeks, Digital Overtone turns 3 today, which is worth celebrating, if only with a small post noting the fact before climbing into bed with my current read. Happy birthday!
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A little meme I picked up from Rachel yesterday. I’ve had this post ready since then, but am only posting it now because YOU CAN LOSE A LOT OF POTENTIALLY OTHERWISE MORE PRODUCTIVE TIME LISTENING TO EVERYTHING ON THIS LIST. Be careful. You’ve been warned. (But, come on, it’s Friday!)
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In _Rabelais and His World_, Bakhtin tackles what he considers shortcomings in early 20th-century scholarship on 16th-century French author François Rabelais. The particular value of this book, though, lies not in his reflections on Rabelais _per se_, but on his lucid consideration of the generative function of the grotesque, the history of laughter, and their encounter in the popular context of the marketplace, reflections that remain remarkably relevant to literary criticism today.
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