Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children

It is on the tradition of the postmodern and magical realist texts to be in the business of liberating from conventions and established norms and blurring the borders. The way in which these subversive texts challenge the traditionally accepted codes and regulations is directly allied to Bakhtin’s n...

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Main Author:	Shima Sadat Mirmusa
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7222/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7222/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7222/1/5808-16689-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-72222016-12-14T06:43:26Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7222/ Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children Shima Sadat Mirmusa, It is on the tradition of the postmodern and magical realist texts to be in the business of liberating from conventions and established norms and blurring the borders. The way in which these subversive texts challenge the traditionally accepted codes and regulations is directly allied to Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque through which the firmly established hierarchical laws of the society are inverted. The paper convincingly argues how Carter’s fiction, an influential paradigm of magical realism, erodes the boundaries of the paradoxical impulses and celebrates the confusion of the categories through incorporating the theories of carnivalisation. It suggests the ways in which carnivalesque operates to open the possibilities to construct a dehierarchized world which is deprived of privileged sectors, patriarchal authority and any form of supremacy and is filled with the primacy of marginality. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7222/1/5808-16689-1-PB.pdf Shima Sadat Mirmusa, (2014) Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (2). pp. 141-154. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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title	Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children
title_short	Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children
title_full	Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children
title_fullStr	Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children
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title_sort	bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in angela carter’s the magic toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2014
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Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children

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