Carnivalesque
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The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559)
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil-on-panel painting executed by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. It is a panorama of contemporary life in the Sou
Carnivalesque
…The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559) The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere…
Lent and Carnival (1558), etching by Hieronymus Cock after Frans Hogenberg, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
The figure of Carnival (detail)
The figure of Lent (detail)