Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling a carnival; suitable to or in keeping with a carnival.
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- adjective Resembling a
carnival
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Examples
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Instead, he offered the term "carnivalesque," a world where passions bubble over, costumes are forever sliding off of all-too-fleshy bodies, genders are bent, and toilet jokes are as sure as the sunrise.
Picking Out Eye Candy Steve Dollar 2011
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In a number of venues now (check out Zilvinas Kempinas's "Ballroom," a disco-meets-bumper-car installation at Yvon Lambert) the carnivalesque is alive and well.
Taking Senses to the Extreme Lance Esplund 2010
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To some extent, Everett's practice in a work like Glyph is an illustration of M.M. Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque," in which an attitude of "radical skepticism" makes it impossible for anything to be taken seriously.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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To some extent, Everett's practice in a work like Glyph is an illustration of M.M. Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque," in which an attitude of "radical skepticism" makes it impossible for anything to be taken seriously.
"So Set Against the Notion of Convention That I Should Attack It" 2009
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To some extent, Everett's practice in a work like Glyph is an illustration of M.M. Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque," in which an attitude of "radical skepticism" makes it impossible for anything to be taken seriously.
October 2009 2009
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This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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Ray captures his "carnivalesque" qualities precisely: "an absolute distrust" of everything "serious" that informs all of his best films, right down to a distrust of his own role in the film.
Film 2008
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In the great tradition of American slapstick comedy (what I also like to think of as a tradition of "carnivalesque" comedy as described by M.M. Bakhtin), Bob Hope is one of its most important figures, and perhaps the figure most unjustly left out of critical considerations of this tradition.
Film 2008
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GEEK LOVE comes immediately to mind, of course; Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque" if you want to get all lit theory-ish, and poetic imagery from Hart Crane to Red Skelton.
Archive 2007-04-13 Book Nerd 2007
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GEEK LOVE comes immediately to mind, of course; Bakhtin's concept of the "carnivalesque" if you want to get all lit theory-ish, and poetic imagery from Hart Crane to Red Skelton.
Friday Cleanup: Links, Appeals, Speculations Book Nerd 2007
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