Add to ORKGWriting in the mid-1960s, Russian literary theorist and philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin famously understood medieval carnival to reveal the truth of life’s rebelliousness against the authoritarian rule of official culture. Carnival was important to Bakhtin as it expressed an immanent liveliness that exceeded the regulatory controls of church and state and disrupted the binary hierarchies of power, distinguishing the governing and the governed, high culture from the low, and those with power from those without. Carnival was a world of freedom from external constraint: a world of immanent becoming, rather than transcendental laws: ‘Carnival is not a spectacle seen by the people; they live in it… While carnival lasts there is no life outside it. ...
The term kairos has been used to mean, alternatively, right timing or proportion in Ancient Greek rh...
In Bakhtin\u2019s epistemology (Bakhtin 1968), carnival is posited as the symbolic place where the a...
The purpose of this article is to apply Bakhtin theory of carnivalesque as a device in reading noise...
The role that Mikhail Bakhtin’s book on Rabelais, and the carnival theme more generally, plays in Ba...
According to the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the carnival of the Middle Ages and Renaissance played a...
Concepts that were propounded by the Russian contemplator Mikhael Bakhtin based on his literature r...
The following article is an autoethnographic reading of carnival as an inter-cultural and interperso...
The following article is an autoethnographic reading of carnival as an inter-cultural and interperso...
Does the phenomenon of carnivalesque challenge hegemony and inspire social change? Mikhail Bakhtin c...
Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure...
It is on the tradition of the postmodern and magical realist texts to be in the business of liberati...
I propose to take the grotesque, both as a discursive genre and a cultural attitude and practice, as...
The Bakhtinian concept of space is topological rather than topographic, and encompasses the cosmic, ...
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi recontextualises the traditional castaway narrative’s rationalist and reduc...
Often taken in questionable way, usually within the meaning of simple hierarchical inversion, the th...
The term kairos has been used to mean, alternatively, right timing or proportion in Ancient Greek rh...
In Bakhtin\u2019s epistemology (Bakhtin 1968), carnival is posited as the symbolic place where the a...
The purpose of this article is to apply Bakhtin theory of carnivalesque as a device in reading noise...
The role that Mikhail Bakhtin’s book on Rabelais, and the carnival theme more generally, plays in Ba...
According to the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the carnival of the Middle Ages and Renaissance played a...
Concepts that were propounded by the Russian contemplator Mikhael Bakhtin based on his literature r...
The following article is an autoethnographic reading of carnival as an inter-cultural and interperso...
The following article is an autoethnographic reading of carnival as an inter-cultural and interperso...
Does the phenomenon of carnivalesque challenge hegemony and inspire social change? Mikhail Bakhtin c...
Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure...
It is on the tradition of the postmodern and magical realist texts to be in the business of liberati...
I propose to take the grotesque, both as a discursive genre and a cultural attitude and practice, as...
The Bakhtinian concept of space is topological rather than topographic, and encompasses the cosmic, ...
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi recontextualises the traditional castaway narrative’s rationalist and reduc...
Often taken in questionable way, usually within the meaning of simple hierarchical inversion, the th...
The term kairos has been used to mean, alternatively, right timing or proportion in Ancient Greek rh...
In Bakhtin\u2019s epistemology (Bakhtin 1968), carnival is posited as the symbolic place where the a...
The purpose of this article is to apply Bakhtin theory of carnivalesque as a device in reading noise...