Author: Xia Zhongxian
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Publish Date: 2000-11-01
Features: This book is the first systematic monograph in China that discusses Bakhtin's theory of carnivalesque poetics. It reviews the history and current state of Bakhtin studies in Russia, the West, and China; explores carnivalesque poetics from the perspectives of subversion and construction; examines the origins of carnivalesque, literary carnivalescence, and the historical evolution of carnivalesque literature from a historical-theoretical perspective; and discusses important issues in the poetics of the body.