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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Rabelais and His World"”.
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the carnivalesque nature of the locations visited by the characters in the …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… influence. Faulkner experienced both a black and white folk culture in childhood through his Aunt Alabama and his nurse, Caroline Barr. I cover many of Faulkner’s ‘Modernist’ novels but examine their folk and vernacular elements, such as Jason Compson’s vernacular consciousness, the …
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Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
This thesis considers the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, focusing on Cat’s Cradle (1963), Player Piano (1952), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin’s carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965), his theoretical …
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
This dissertation argues that, during the last three decades of the nineteenth-century, at a time when, influenced by Mikhail Bakunin's philosophies of destruction, Russian revolutionaries called for the annihilation of tsarist Russia, realist novelists turned to the grotesque mode. Whereas works …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… in human development, characterized by internal and external bodily changes. Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid employ the first-person narrative style in their respective debut novels, <em>Breath, Eyes, Memory </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide …
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The Bakhtinian Grotesque in fashion at the turn of the twenty-first century
This thesis constitutes a study of the grotesque in fashion design at the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories, it investigates the reasons behind the proliferation of grotesque imagery within fashion of the period. In 'Rabelais and his World', Bakhtin traces a …