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	Carnivalesque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the literary theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, the carnivalesque is both the description of a historical phenomenon and the name he gives to a certain literary tendency.
		As a result, he says, the public spirit of the carnival metamorphosed into the 'carnivalesque': that is, the spirit of carnival rendered into literary form.
		Ever concerned with the liberation of the human spirit, Bakhtin claimed that carnivalesque literature — like the carnivals themselves — broke apart oppressive and mouldy forms of thought and cleared the path for the imagination and the never-ending project of emancipation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnivalesque (394 words)

	Carnivalesque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carnivalesque was originally launched in September 2004 as a bi-monthly roundup of high-quality blog writing related to the ‘early modern’ period in history (broadly defined as c.1450-1850).
		Carnivalesque filled its special niche so successfully that in late spring of 2005, it was decided to expand its coverage, but in a way that would maintain its distinctiveness and focus.
		If you are interested in hosting an edition of Carnivalesque, please send us an email (see further down page for details), noting whether you are particularly interested in early modern or ancient/medieval, and telling us a little about your background and historical interests.
	carnivalesque.blogsome.com (774 words)

	carnival
		The Renaissance carnival culture involves the "temporary suspension of all hierarchic distinctions and barriers among men and of the prohibitions of usual life." (p15) Those that lived the carnival immersed themselves in the frolicking physical mutilation, bingeing and primordial gaiety that was the carnival.
		Bakhtin divides the carnivalesque into three forms: ritual spectacles, comic verbal compositions, and various genres of billingsgate or abusive language.
		Bakhtin describes the carnivalesque as something that is created when the themes of the carnival twist, mutate, and invert standard themes of societal makeup.
	www.english.uga.edu /~amitchel/4830_carnival.htm (921 words)

	Carnivalesque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Three lengthy tracks come together to form Carnivalesque, a bricolage of the sonic revelry that takes centre stage in Icarus' sub-conscious, filling the gaps between otherwise serene pursuits: Carnivalesque conceals spasms of Icarus' signature mayhem amongst extended passages of ritual repetition; an invitation to a highly-dramatised headphone promenade down a familiar city street.
		Carnivalesque's tense conflicts of duration misplace it as EP, single or album, ostensibly as a result of the way it was produced.
		With Carnivalesque Icarus also return to the freedom of their fantasy non-label, Not Applicable, which is set to gain momentum with the release of additional collaborative projects.
	www.icarus.nu /automatronic/media/carnivalesque.php (298 words)

	Continuum 1.2: Docker
		The carnivalesque genre of parodic prophecies and riddles, Bakhtin argues, is opposed to the genre of serious prophecies, which were of a gloomy and eschatological character, incorporating the medieval concept of history.
		In carnivalesque, the images of games were seen as a condensed formula of life and of the historical process: fortune and misfortune, gain and loss, crowning of temporary victors, and uncrowning.
		The carnivalesque popular culture sphere refuses to lie down and die, to be regulated out of its grotesque life, even if it suffers temporary defeats (as happened to fairs, festive life in the forest, the shows of London, and museums until recently).
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/1.2/Docker.html (5950 words)

	Impudent Women: Carnival and gender in early modern culture
		Mikhail Bakhtin, the most influential twentieth century theorist of the carnivalesque, derived the notion from his analyses of early modern culture, and it's clear that many people in that society did have a vocabulary and a set of conceptual categories for talking about phenomena which both we and they would associate with the carnivalesque.
		Hutchinson indicates that far from constituting a free-spirited rebellion by the marginalised against the centres of power, carnivalesque practices were actively managed by a monstrous conspiracy of the court and the Catholic Church as a way of maintaining their domination.
		The carnivalesque role of the prophetess enabled women to turn their customary, pejorative association with weakness, hysteria, irrationality and susceptibility to possession by external agents to advantage in order to legitimise their public speech.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue1/chefgz.htm (4764 words)

	Mimicry and the Carnivalesque in Anand's Untouchable
		For Bakhtin, "Carnivalesque literature uses elements of parody, mimicry, bodily humour and grotesque display to achieve the ends of carnival, that is, to jostle ‘from below’ the univocal, elevated language of high art and decorous society".
		The parallels between the carnivalesque gravedigger scene from Hamlet and the episode in the alley are irresistible, with both the Prince of Denmark and the housewife bemoaning a perceived threat to the social order from punning, articulate, discourteous persons of lowly rank.
		Bakha is a disruptive carnivalesque figure at the level of the religious, physical and societal.
	www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/india/Untouchable.htm (2007 words)

	Somnambule ~ Review of Icarus ~ Carnivalesque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carnivalesque arrives unrequested at my house in the sort of recycled padded envelope - complete with handwritten address label affixed with masking tape – that usually signals one of my all too frequent eBay purchases.
		I then read the sticker and note that the main title, rendered in a reversed serif font is ‘Carnivalesque’.
		Carnivalesque prompts images of Jan Svankmajer films played at hyperspeed, of timelapse photography depicting the decay of a lovingly tended garden.
	www.eleventhvolume.com /reviews/cds/files/icarus_carnivalesque.html (453 words)

	Carnivalesque: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Carnivalesque XV at Siris May 22nd, 2006 Siris has posted another excellent edition of the...
		Carnivalesque IX: The past is back to haunt you
		I’m going to try out something for both the History Carnival and Carnivalesque (as previously done by the teaching carnival).
	technorati.com /tag/carnivalesque (209 words)

	The Rhine River: Carnivalesque #7
		Welcome to Carnivalesque, the Carnival of all things Early Modern.
		Similarly, Historiological Notes asks whether it is possible to use standard periodization to the History of Ideas.
		I like the carnivalesque and think it has a different flavor than the history carnival.
	rhineriver.blogspot.com /2005/05/carnivalesque-7.html (1096 words)

	Carnivalesque :: Why “Carnivalesque”?
		And I have to confess that I did much the same thing when, in autumn 2004, I decided to name my new pet project, an early modernists' blog carnival.
		In other words, it's "carnivalesque" simply because that idea made me smile.
		And I thought it would be a little different from just calling it "the early modern carnival" or something like that.
	carnivalesque.blogsome.com /why-carnivalesque (184 words)

	Blogenspiel
		Of course, the fact that Gastropoda Regina is off to super-exotic locale to teach for a couple of years means I'd have missed her anyway...
		If you are interested in hosting an edition of Carnivalesque, please comment below or send an e-mail to Another_damned_medievalist AT-SIGN hotmail DOT com, noting whether you are particularly interested in early modern or ancient/medieval, and telling us a little about your background and historical interests.
		History Carnival XXXVI is up at Clews and, despite a glitch in the submission mechanism, it's pretty darned good.
	blogenspiel.blogspot.com (885 words)

	Modernity and the Dinner Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As it will become clear, the atmosphere of the carnival is not an accidental factor or a "mere" literary device; rather, the carnivalesque atmosphere of Book Four is essential to an understanding of the issues and concepts brought up in the first three books, especially the concept of the eternal return.
		Finally, I will attempt to show both that the atmosphere of Book Four is indeed carnivalesque, and that elements of the carnivalesque are necessary both for an understanding and realization of eternal return, a return to the earth, and the creation of a gay science.
		But carnivalesque laughter does not have this separating function; in its universal ambivalence it mocks both parties and the laugher, it reifies no hierarchies in its humor.
	wso.williams.edu /orgs/729/issue1/klatell.html (7233 words)

	Earmarks in Early Modern Culture » Blog Archive » A Cabinet of Curiosities — Carnivalesque #14
		The previous early modern edition of Carnivalesque was followed hot on the heels by the Old Bailey Symposium at the Head Beeb.
		I leave you with the message that Carnivalesque is looking for a host for the next ancient/medieval issue in May. Vist the Carnivalesque homepage or mail sharon [at] earlymodernweb [dot] org [dot] uk if you’re interested.
		[…] Carnivalesque No 14 is now up on Earmarks in Early Modern Culture and it is a fascinating “Cabinet of Curiosities”, with a particular focus on women’s history, from the diary of an aristocratic figure (Lady Shelburne) to Takeri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be beatified by the Catholic Church.
	earmarks.org /archives/2006/04/16/66 (1942 words)

	Houyhnhnm Land » Carnivals
		The fifth Carnivalesque (the Early Modern Carnival) is up at Rhine River.
		The past two months have been as busy and distracting as can be, but there have still been some great posts on the early modern period.
		The Early Modernists’ Carnival, Carnivalesque, is coming to Houyhnhnm Land (pronounced “whinnim” or “hwinnimn”).
	branemrys.org /archives/category/carnivals (725 words)

	ICARUS Carnivalesque
		In line with the DIY approach adopted with their Not Applicable imprint, Carnivalesque, the seventh album from British duo Icarus, comes complete with recycled packaging.
		Yet, if the soundscapes and sound constructions require a lot of focus and involvement from the listener, this is not to say that Icarus wear out their audience.
		The candour with which Carnivalesque is assembled is not only truly enchanting, but also rather refreshing.
	www.themilkfactory.co.uk /reviews/icarus_carnival.htm (325 words)

	détente: Carnivalesque
		The name of the publication (from Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel) came from Stegall's idea that, "some kind of resurrection of the Carnivalesque as a possible mediating force between religion and modernity."
		I don't think this evocation of the Carnivalesque is necessarily 'Catholic,' but I think I understand the transposition of the two because Protestants have never excelled at evoking the Carnivalesque.
		In one of the ironic twists of the Reformation, the Protestant desire to arrive at a 'critical' understanding and implementation of tradition ended up closing off the Carnivalesque spaces in society.
	detente.burdenfamily.net /2005/09/carnivalesque.html (174 words)

	Celebrations in the Texts of Vernon Lee: the Disruption of the Carnivalesque
		Indeed, the short story stages the victory of carnivalesque Sora Lena — in the Bakhtinian sense — against the over-sophisticated semblance of Madame Krasinska and her likes.
		The Church accordingly imposes its own framework; for example, the liturgical calendar, associating each day with the commemoration of a saint, generates a host of daily celebrations, which finally trivialises the celebration.
		And the opera, equivalent to “the chryselephantine colossus” of antiquity, embodies the creative disruption of the Carnivalesque.
	www2.univ-reunion.fr /~ageof/text/74c21e88-280.html (5734 words)

	Ivan Davidson Kalmar lecture, Ritual and the Carnivalesque 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ivan Davidson Kalmar lecture, Ritual and the Carnivalesque 1
		Discuss the high/low contrast in: the semiotics of the body; the psyche; buildings; regions of the world; society
		What was the role of the referee and other officials in the episodes of wrestling seen in class?
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~ikalmar/question/carnival1.htm (87 words)

	Hyper Dialogic Polyphonic Carnivalesque Aesthetics.
		Towards Hyper "Dialogic"," Polyphonic", "Carnivalesque" Aesthetics in Meta-Complex Art"(50).
		NonNarrative are patterns whose visibility should be regarded as key factors in the relationships of both Content and Form.
		The Corn giants of Satire, Joy and Tartuffery should be used as continuous Harmony-Disharmony Carnivalesque Metaphors to get the Essentials in Complex Art.
	cerritos.cyberbro.com /Narcissus/Narcissus25.html (262 words)

	Early Modern Notes » Carnivalesque #10
		It was accepted with minor corrections; i.e., I have to fix a few references and typos and I’m done.
		Another regular carnival is Carnivalesque, which alternates between ancient / medieval and early modern topics in historical study.
		The most recent Carnivalesque (#10) is hosted by Sharon Howard (U. of Wales) at Early Modern Notes.
	earlymodernweb.org.uk /emn/index.php/archives/2005/11/carnivalesque-10 (1706 words)

	History News Network
		1450-1850) since the last Carnivalesque in early May. In the process, I've read lots of stuff from historians, philosophers, art lovers, historical fiction aficionados and authors, scientists, literateurs and plain old fans of regions or periods.
		So Carnivalesque will now be monthly, alternating between Early Modern and Ancient/Medieval editions.
		The August edition will be an Ancient/Medieval roundup: (host and site to be determined; step up or at least) send nominations of the best posts you've written or read in the last few months to carnivalesque[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/12902.html (1684 words)

	The Cranky Professor: Carnivalesque
		We know that academic summers sometimes look like beer and skittles, but some of us travel around the world to go to ill-ventilated libraries and read documents in crabbed hands.
		I myself had a few posts using the word Carnivalesque earlier this summer, but I didn't get to go anywhere.
		Natalie Bennett of Philobiblon took a less professionally focused trip -- she was cycling through Kent -- but when those inclined to think about the past go pedalling around high and late medieval buildings, they can't help but think.
	www.crankyprofessor.com /archives/000408.html (908 words)

	Siris: Plug for Carnivalesque
		If, however, you find me making a clear factual error, let me know; blogging is a great way to get rid of misconceptions.
		The Early Modernists' Carnival, Carnivalesque, is coming to Houyhnhnm Land (pronounced "whinnim" or "hwinnimn"), my other weblog.
		The date will be November 5 (subject to change).
	branemrys.blogspot.com /2004/10/plug-for-carnivalesque.html (425 words)

	icarus.nu
		Visuals will be provided by Squint and Brittski courtesy of a grant from the Lighthouse, Brighton.
		It is available to subscribers of the French film magazine 'Repérages' and also in FNAC.
		The full length film recieved it's London Premiere in April and will be shown at Audiovisiva, the music/film programme of the Milan Film Festival, on September 30th 2005.
	www.icarus.nu (1073 words)

	111-470 Comedy, Cult and the Carnivalesque
		This course will focus on approaches to and definitions of the comedy and cult in film and television (keeping in mind the flexible and indefinable nature of both these forms), with particular focus on the carnivalesque aspects of both forms.
		Areas to be explored will include: early film comedy; comedian comedy; sitcoms and female comics; characteristics and definitions of the cult text; South American cinema and the carnivalesque.
		Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words for 3rd year and 6000 words for 4th year.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /HB/1998/subjects/111-470.html (173 words)

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