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Bakhtin was referring to a modern incarnation of medieval church carnivals, involving the sanctified being profaned and overturned, and the reversal of opposing concepts such as heaven and hell. The main characters of this classics, fiction story are. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 1041 pages and is available in paperback format. Bakhtin makes similar observations on the nature of the grotesque and offers an amusing. Bakhtins grasp of the difficult images and language of rabelais work in extraordinary, and his.
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