Russian Formalism, Mikhail Bakhtin, Heteroglossia, and Carnival

This article discusses the implied ‘vulgarity’ and playfulness of children's literature within the broader concept of the carnivalesque as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World (1965) and further contextualised by John Stephens in Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (1992). Carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales are examined by situating them within Cristina Bacchilega's contemporary construct of the ‘fairy-tale web’, focusing on the arenas of parody and intertextuality for the purpose of detecting crucial changes in children's culture in relation to the social construct and ideology of adulthood from the Golden Age of children's literature onward. The analysis is primarily concerned with Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (1982) and J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2007/2008) as representative examples of the historically conditioned empowerment of the child consumer. Marked by ambivalent laughter, mockery and the degradation of ‘high culture’, the interrogative, subversive and ‘time out’ nature of the carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales reveals the striking allure of contemporary children's culture, which not only accommodates children's needs and preferences, but also is evidently desirable to everybody.

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How Dialogical Are We Really? Insights Gleaned from Un-Dialogical Moments

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.4.47 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 47-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dongjing Kang ◽

Chigozirim Utah Sodeke

Keyword(s):

Mikhail Bakhtin ◽

Research Process ◽

Martin Buber ◽

Crucial Step ◽

Research Reporting

This essay emphasizes the writing of dialogical research as a crucial step in the dialogical research process. Dialogical research accounts should not suppress the ongoing struggles that accompany a genuine desire to engage dialogically in research contexts. Thus, we advocate and model evocative retellings of these struggles. Questioning our own fieldwork based on the work of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, we highlight principles of dialogue that also serve as guidelines for dialogical research reporting: unfinalizability, engaging paradoxes, and creative (critical) transformation.

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Romance e imagem em O fotógrafo, de Cristóvão Tezza

Fórum de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea ◽

10.35520/flbc.2012.v4n8a17289 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (8) ◽

Author(s):

Cimara Valim De Melo

Keyword(s):

Mikhail Bakhtin ◽

Roland Barthes ◽

Susan Sontag

O presente ensaio busca analisar o romance O fotógrafo, de Cristóvão Tezza, para dele extrair elementos comuns à romanesca contemporânea quanto ao modo como esta realiza a projeção imagética e plástica das relações eu/outro nos limites espaciais da criação literária. Para isso, a pesquisa tem como base os estudos de Mikhail Bakhtin sobre as relações entre atividade estética, imagem, espaço e personagem, além dos de Roland Barthes e Susan Sontag sobre o fotográfico e de Erving Goffmann sobre representação.

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Dialogue as Generative Form of Positioning

10.1093/oso/9780190687793.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hubert J. M Hermans

Keyword(s):

Learning Process ◽

Main Part ◽

Mikhail Bakhtin ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

The Self ◽

David Bohm ◽

Self Talk ◽

Central Elements

For the development of a democratic self, dialogical relationships between different people and between different positions in the self are paramount. After a review of studies on self-talk, the main part of this chapter is devoted to a comparison of the works of two classic thinkers on dialogue, Mikhail Bakhtin and David Bohm. A third theoretical perspective is depicted in which central elements of the two theorists are combined. This perspective centers around the concept of “generative dialogue” that, as a learning process, has the potential of innovation in the form of new and common meanings without total unification of the different positions. Elaborating on central features of generative dialogue, a distinction is made between consonant and dissonant dialogue, the latter of which is inevitable in a time of globalization and localization in which people are increasingly interdependent and, at the same time, faced with their apparent differences.

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