This article explores the deployment of one of Rabelais’s keywords, “panomphée,” and offers some new elements for the reading and contextualization of the end of the Fifth Book by looking deeper into the sources of the bacchic parody of initiation. We emphasize the influence of Greco-Latin readings of Rabelais, and the tradition of visual poems (technopaignia).
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques