Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque : a dimension in the fiction of Margaret Laurence
Bakhtin considers the carnivalistic to be a fundamental root of the novelistic genre. He sees the carnivalesque as having its roots in Socratic Dialogue and Menippean Satire. The novelistic genre has three fundamental roots and one of these is the carnivalistic. Bakhtin further traces the roots of t...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3651 |