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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"carnivalesque"”.
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Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
… of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin’s carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965), his theoretical perspectives on the text as a site of struggle from The Dialogic Imagination (1975), and the practical application of his theories with the novel as polyphonic from Problems …
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The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry
… and isolation. Using characteristics of the carnivalesque and the grotesque, her poetry explores these concepts and the need to cover them. This study's close analysis of four works ("From the Country to the City, " "Cirque d'Hiver, " "Pink Dog, " and "The Man-Moth") reveals characteristics …
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… Last Orders has yet to be viewed as containing carnivalesque 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 …
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Elements of carnival and the carnivalesque in contemporary Australian children's literature
This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the …
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Comics and the Carnivalesque: The Daily Mirror, Jane, and the birth of adult British newspaper strips.
This research examines the development of adult-oriented comics in British popular newspapers, covering the years from 1881 to 1945. It uses the strip Jane as a vehicle through which to understand how adult daily newspaper strips evolved, positioning their story both alongside the concurrent …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are pressured to conform to the Southern ideal. In the first chapter, I argue that Eudora Welty uses the carnivalesque to reveal the performativity of normalcy in …
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Workshop Theatre in South Africa in the 1980s : a critical examination with specific reference to power, orality and the carnivalesque
… theory; orality and the oral tradition; and the carnivalesque as it is conceived of in the writing of Mikhail Bakhtin. Chapter One is a general introduction to the dissertation. In Part I of the study, it is argued that workshop theatre forms part of a power struggle within the field of theatre …
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Carnivalizing the Nation: Reassessing the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival as an Inclusive Platform for Local and Diaspora Cultural Identity
… the framing of cultural identity because the carnivalesque or trans dimensional qualities of carnival parallel the trans -national ones of cultural identity. Hence, to study this fluidity within the culture, I locate carnivalesque, the spirit of becoming, within carnival spaces. I then locate …
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Die karnavalisering van die geskiedskrywing in die roman Sirkusboere
… on Sonja Loots's novel Sirkusboere (2011) as carnivalesque text and metahistorical novel. Emphasis is placed on the carnivalesque discourse and how various aspects of the the carnivalesque are used to debunk a conventional approach to historiography. The problematisation of historiography has …
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Bending and breaking the boundary between horror and comedy: an exploration of the existentialist function of the abject in the works of John Landis and Woody Allen
… Freud’s “uncanny,” and (4) Mikhail Baktin’s carnivalesque. The chapter will conclude with John Landis’ portions of The Twilight Zone: The Movie, as a linked history that welcomes exploration of Landis alongside Allen. Chapter Two conducts a comparative study of two horror-comedies: John …
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Fantasy and politics in South African literature : a comparative study of the use of the fantastic in selected works of Christopher Hope, Ivan Vladislavic and Andre Brink
… and the role that this mode, particularly in its carnivalesque aspects, can play in South African literature is considered. In the second chapter, we see how, through his use of satire and black comedy, Christopher Hope emphasises the warped absurdities of life under apartheid. Authority is …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
… see his work as satire and understand the use of carnivalesque techniques in challenging authority see the genius in his work.</p>
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
… see his work as satire and understand the use of carnivalesque techniques in challenging authority see the genius in his work.</p>
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Rhetorics of Everyday Resistance: The Belgrade 1996/97 Student Protest
… rhetorical devices – I interrogate the role of carnivalesque humor and the carnivalesque body present in political jokes and al fresco satirical, theatrical spectaculars.</p> <p>This project makes a number of contributions to the communication discipline. I suggest that the rhetoric of …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
… critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert essentialist notions of (Black) identity.
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Shakespearean Polyphony. An exploration of female voices in seven selected plays using a dialogical framework.
… space, time and voice. More precisely, the carnivalesque becomes visible in Shakespeare's use of innovative discursive devices, such as 'active parody', 'Menippean dialogue' and 'Socratic dialogue', which suggests a multi-toned and ambiguous female voice; a voice that has the capacity to …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
… of Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque (1984). Inspired by Frederick M. Denny (1985), who coined the term ‘orthopraxy’ to describe the importance of ritual practice in Islam, this dissertation refers to transgressive and carnivalesque religious performances as …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
… abrogated these traditional ideals to create a carnivalesque representation of the societal norms through a genre, and a production code that sought to preserve them. Using the work of Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin, this project reveals that these films feature dark and satirical …
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The tripod in the dunny : a study of Patrick White's sylleptic habits
… is considered as a stylistic formula for the carnivalesque. The concept of a reactionary "counter-carnival" is formulated, and is used to examine the equivocal energies of White's ironic dispensation. Chapter Four focuses on the carnivalesque dialectic between the orthodox and the grotesque …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
… for non-normative identity performance within a carnivalesque setting in which the construction of shared fantasy is the basis of social processes. It also asks how what social forces, such as popular media’s romanticized version of history, may influence participants’ identity expression and …
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