Carnivalizing difference : Bakhtin and the other

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Title:

Carnivalizing difference : Bakhtin and the other

Author:

Barta, Peter I.

ISBN:

9780415269919

Publication Information:

London : Routledge, 2001.

Physical Description:

xvii, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in Russian and European literature ; v.6

Series Title:

Studies in Russian and European literature ; v.6

Contents:

Alienated couples in Euripidean tragedy: Bakhtinian analusis Novelistic discourse in Aristophanes Victory without defeat? Carnival laughter and its appropriation in Pindar's Victory odes Degenerate Neoptolemus: praise poetry and the novelization of the Aeneid The tomb of epic Bakhtinian parody and Petronius' Tale of the widow of Ephesus The otherness of history in Rabelais' Carnival and Juvenal's Satire, or Why Bakhtin got it right the first time

The last laugh: carnivalizing the feminine in Piron's La Puce Carnivalizing Irish catholicism: Austin Clarke's The sun dances at Easter Reading the other, reading other readings Bakhtin, Willa Cather and the Dialogics of critical response Difference and convention Bakhtin and the practice of travel literature Bakhtin in Brooklyn language in Spike Lee's Do the right thing

Personal Subject:

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Subject Term:

Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.

Criticism -- History -- 20th century.

Literary form.

Added Author:

Barta, Peter I.

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Summary

It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same title held at Texas Tech University, Carnivalizing Difference seeks to explore the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian theory and cultural practice. The introduction explores the changing configurations of our understanding of Bakhtin's work in the context of recent theory and outlines how that understanding can inform, and be informed by, culture both ancient and modern. Eleven articles, spanning a wide range of periods and cultural forms, then address these issues in detail, revealing the ways in which Bakhtinian thought illuminates, sometimes obfuscates, but always challenges.