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Carnival, sacred and sovereign: The intellectual intersection of Bakhtin and Bataille
Title
Carnival, sacred and sovereign: The intellectual intersection of Bakhtin and Bataille.
Creator
Lemole, Jared E., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description
The common intellectual ground shared by Mikhail Bakhtin and Georges Bataille routinely suffers from a dearth of consideration. Yet Bakhtin's celebrated "carnival" writings are invested in undeniably Bataillean interests---death, excess, transgression, heterogeneity. Both Bakhtin and Bataille inherited the Wagnerian Nietzsche's nostalgia for effusive communal ritual, collapsing the boundaries between bodies and the boundary between life and death (this is "transgression," eroticism ,...
Show moreThe common intellectual ground shared by Mikhail Bakhtin and Georges Bataille routinely suffers from a dearth of consideration. Yet Bakhtin's celebrated "carnival" writings are invested in undeniably Bataillean interests---death, excess, transgression, heterogeneity. Both Bakhtin and Bataille inherited the Wagnerian Nietzsche's nostalgia for effusive communal ritual, collapsing the boundaries between bodies and the boundary between life and death (this is "transgression," eroticism , according to Bataille; too often transgression is spoken of in terms of stealing a pornographic magazine). Thus bodies in Bakhtin and Bataille are "open," mainly in comic and inglorious ways, and death is the cynosure of festival. Death for Bakhtin and Bataille is not negative; it is "sacred" (Bataille's term), serving as communal cement and a celebration of life. Not, however, life in the sense of 401k's and insurance. Rather, life as exuberance and generosity ("sovereignty" according to Bataille).
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Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13261
Subject Headings
Critical theory, Bataille, Georges,--1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation, Bakhtin, MM--(Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich),--1895-1975--Criticism and interpretation, Discourse analysis
Format
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