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work_g63tefd7ibgvflhishzolnsr6e	K. Banks	'I speak like John about the Apocalypse': Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction	2012	19	.pdf	application/pdf	12960	1555	81	Banks, Kathryn (2012) ''I speak like John about the Apocalypse' : Rabelais, prophecy, and �ction.', Literature the Apocalypse': Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction, Literature and Theology, 26 (4): 417-438 is available online at: 'I speak like John about the Apocalypse': Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction plays with apocalyptic time;xiv towards the end of the text, Rabelais draws on biblical apocalyptic prophecy as a reflection on the difficulties of reading Rabelaisian fiction.xix implications of apocalypse and the Book of Revelation for writing and reading fiction. prologue to Gargantua suggests that Rabelais's fictions contain a 'higher' meaning of Fiction and Prophecy: the prologue (and conclusion) to Pantagruel the same might be said about the Book of Revelation, the text to which Rabelais directly Book of Revelation was itself considered as prophecy.lxvi Similarly, Rabelais suggests that the literal does have a role to play: 'speaking like John' points to a revelation dependent Rabelais's readers the Book of Revelation.	./cache/work_g63tefd7ibgvflhishzolnsr6e.pdf	./txt/work_g63tefd7ibgvflhishzolnsr6e.txt