![]() But soon the vision is replaced by an image, and then (if the metatext is as effective as it is interesting) by a statue, indeed an icon, of the author. In its first freshness it widens one's eyes, offering an unaccustomed vision of a text. All this is metatext, and metatext is all, or almost all, interpretation. ![]() He expressed the spirit of the people, their exuberant refusal to be captured by the reassurances, in heaven as on earth, offered by church and state authority. He represents the panoply of learning, the excitement of sixteenth-century men, Columbus's heirs and Petrarch's, at the prospect of a suddenly expanding world. FOREWORDįrançois Rabelais (1483?–1553) is the Renaissance incarnate. ![]() Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990 1990.
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