Bakhtin
Carnival concept scholar
Bakhtin refers to Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), a Russian philosopher and literary theorist whose ideas profoundly influenced studies of language, literature, and culture.
His concepts—dialogism, the carnivalesque, heteroglossia, the chronotope—appear throughout humanities scholarship.
A Bakhtinian reading of the novel emphasizes its multiple competing voices.
The adjective Bakhtinian describes work drawing on his theories.
Simultaneous independent melodic lines
- utteranceSpoken expression aloud
- voiceSound from throat
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- responsivenessReadiness to react
discourse · answerability · otherness · word · listener · speaker · context · meaning
Distorted, bizarre figure
- laughterVocal expression of amusement
- folk cultureTraditional practices of communities
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
- parodySatirical imitation
subversion · mockery · festive · bodily · inversion · transgression · popular culture · satire
Unified dimensional continuum
- novelNew and unusual
- genreCategory of creative work
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- roadVehicle travel surface
salon · idyll · adventure · Dostoevsky · Goethe · bildungsroman · narrative · literary history
19th-century Russian author
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- proseUnversified language
- authorCreator of written works
- heroOne admired for courage
aesthetics · formalism · structuralism · Medvedev · philology · stylistics · criticism · poetics
Study of subjective experience
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- aestheticsTheory of beauty
- actDeed or performance
- deedWritten property conveyance
answerability · being · event · ought · givenness · consummation · finalization · responsibility
polyphony
Simultaneous independent melodic lines
responsiveness · discourse · answerability · otherness · word · listener · speaker · context · meaning · interaction
grotesque
Distorted, bizarre figure
- laughterVocal expression of amusement
- folk cultureTraditional practices of communities
- marketplaceVenue for commerce
parody · subversion · mockery · festive · bodily · inversion · transgression · popular culture · satire · billingsgate
time-space
Unified dimensional continuum
road · salon · idyll · adventure · Dostoevsky · Goethe · bildungsroman · narrative · literary history · spatiotemporal
Dostoevsky
19th-century Russian author
hero · aesthetics · formalism · structuralism · Medvedev · philology · stylistics · criticism · poetics · modernism
phenomenology
Study of subjective experience
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- aestheticsTheory of beauty
- actDeed or performance
deed · answerability · being · event · ought · givenness · consummation · finalization · responsibility · moral philosophy
- Russian ScienceMendeleev, Pavlov, Sakharov, periodic table, Gagarin
- Slavic criticismformalism, structuralism, defamiliarization, Prague School, Medvedev
- Slavic ThoughtRussian soul, Frank, Pan-Slavism, Russian Orthodoxy, Silver Age
- carnivalparade, costume, float, ferris wheel, roller coaster
- Russian FiguresStalin, Lenin, Gorbachev, Trotsky, Brezhnev
- Russian HumorChekhov, satirical sketches, folk humor, comic tales, comedic tales