![]() All participants in the carnival “live it”, but it is not an extension of the “real world” or “real life” but rather “the world standing on its head”, Bakhtin says. Bakhtin's “Carnival and Carnivalesque” notes that the carnival is not a performance, and does not make any difference between the spectators from the performer. It creates the chance for a new perspective and a new order of things. ![]() It creates inverse cases and breaks down conventions. It is a type of communal performance, with no limit between performers and audience. It is often marked by displays of grotesqueness. It exists on the “borderline of life and art”. Carnival, however, is when everything (except violence) is allowed. Typically, the carnival is when the public participate in a sort of public gatherings. ![]() By definition, according to Bakhtin, it is the period of public gala that happens annually. Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher who wrote on a variety of subjects, including his famous work Rabelais and his World, on the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais, where he discusses carnivalesque and Carnival. ![]()
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