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Carnivalizing Difference

Author David Shepherd , Charles Platter , Paul Allen Miller , Peter I. Barta
Release Date: 2013/06/01
ISBN: 9780415269919
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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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. STUDIES IN RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE
  4. Full Title
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Introduction to the Series
  8. About the Contributors
  9. Transliteration and Translation
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Introduction Beginning the Dialogue: Bakhtin and Others
  12. 1 Alienated Couples in Euripidean Tragedy: A Bakhtinian Analysis
  13. 2 Novelistic Discourse in Aristophanes
  14. 3 Victory without Defeat? Carnival Laughter and Its Appropriation in Pindar's Victory Odes
  15. 4 Degenerate Neoptolemus: Praise Poetry and the Novelization of the Aeneid
  16. 5 The Tomb of Epic: Bakhtinian Parody and Petronius' Tale of the Widow of Ephesus
  17. 6 The Otherness of History in Rabelais' Carnival and Juvenal's Satire, or Why Bakhtin Got it Right the First Time
  18. 7 The Last Laugh: Carnivalizing the Feminine in Piron's La Puce
  19. 8 Carnivalizing Irish Catholicism: Austin Clarke's The Sun Dances at Easter
  20. 9 Reading the Other, Reading Other Readings: Bakhtin, Willa Cather and the Dialogics of Critical Response
  21. 10 Difference and Convention: Bakhtin and the Practice of Travel Literature
  22. 11 Bakhtin in Brooklyn: Language in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
  23. Index
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