carnivalize
English
Etymology
carnival + -ize, originating in translations of the writings of Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin.
Verb
carnivalize (third-person singular simple present carnivalizes, present participle carnivalizing, simple past and past participle carnivalized)
- (transitive, literature) To subvert (mainstream assumptions or literary styles) through humour and chaos.
- 1995, Ellen E. Berry, Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic, page 47:
- Gorenshtein carnivalizes Mother Russia herself and Ivanova carnivalizes love for Mother Russia.
- 1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: race, gender, and nation in contemporary Australian theatre:
- The audience is then rapidly transported to the bizarre and excessively corporeal world of the forest people who, mostly misshapen, mute, and genetically deformed, nonetheless convey a tremendous vitality that carnivalizes classical form with formlessness.
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Related terms
- carnivalization
Translations
to subvert through humor
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