THEORISATIONS OF FESTIVAL AND CARNIVAL

Theorisations of Festival and Carnival

Theorisations of Festival and Carnival

Introduction

Bakhtin and Tuna have a similar vision of carnival. Carnival was a unitary world of special relations that were independent of everyday life. This relationship gets featured by the inversion of the hierarchical relationships where the low mocks the high and the hierarchies get suspended. This followed the suspension of division and separation in social life. By thinking of Bakhtin, his book, 'Rabelais” combined in the novel "Gargantua and Pantagruel, genres and motifs, saving them for posterity and thus creating an encyclopaedia of medieval laughter. Moreover, in terms of Bakhtin's reliance on popular culture of laughter, not only does contradict the humanistic ideals of Rabelais, but rather in harmony with them and even helped promote them as the 'carnival spirit in a deep foundation of Renaissance literature (Giddens, 1991, 42). For example, 'rehabilitation of the flesh', and characteristic of humanity, correlates with 'grotesque concept of the festivals', with a predominance of the material bodily principle of life "inherent in popular culture. Folk culture of laughter, being ancient and archaic in its roots gets anticipated by some fundamental philosophical concepts that are specific to modern times.

Performance Meaning Functioning of Performance

Performance management functioning of performance can be referred to a category through which a significant social and cultural activity can be explored, theorized and described. In the discipline of performance, there is an illuminating heuristic device that enables to account more fully to the dynamic interactions between the culturally and socially located agents that constitute anthropology and history that place new emphasise on the role of these developments particularly with performing arts (Giddens, 1991, 42).

Comparison

Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) was the biggest thinker of the XX century, whose work in the field of philosophy and philology now considered classics. Bakhtin has shown that literature has its roots in folk festivals, carnivals and mysteries of antiquity. In general, the work of Bakhtin, devoted to the study of Western literary tradition, which is still revolutionary and, in fact, open up whole new world mythological and ritual traditions, which Bakhtin saw carnival in and connected with the culture of folk humour. Now it becomes clear that it is not so much in the "nationality" of this culture (Riggio, 2004, 62). However, in its traditional rites, which allows people to send stories from the past "living example" out of writing a commit. Creative Bakhtin has characterized sociological orientation of carnivals and festivals (Giddens, 1990, 78).

He played a significant component of Medieval and Renaissance folk culture of Multivariate analysis in a cultural context. This concept was first implemented in the book Bakhtin's' “Rabelais” Creativity and Popular Culture of the middle Ages and the 'Renaissance' (the first version of the manuscript got completed in 1940, first edition - Moscow, 1965, and translated into many languages) (Giddens, 1990, 78). Rejecting the description of traditionalist social background of the Renaissance and the consideration of advanced views, humanist Rabelais, Bakhtin focused on the study of ancient and medieval ...