Bakhtin's "Carnivalesque" and Bosman's Cold Stone Jug

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Abstract

This paper applies Bakhtin's views on the carnival world-view as a problem of the poetics
of genre to Bosman's Cold Stone Jug. The book's combination of the serious and the
comic testifies not to the author's "idiosyncrasy", but to his adherence to a well-established
European cultural tradition.

Opsomming
Hierdie artikel pas Bakhtin se beskouings oor die wêreld-siening van die karnaval as
problematiek van die poëtika van genre op Bosman se Cold Stone Jug toe. Die boek se
samestelling van die ernstige en die komiese getuig nie van die outeur se "idiosinkrasie"
nie, maar wel van 'n getrouheid aan 'n goed gevestigde Europese kulturele tradisie.

Author Biography

Henrietta Mondry, University of the Witwatersrand

Henrietta Mondry is Associate Professor and Head of Russian Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is an author of two monographs and a number of articles on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, K. Leontiev, and Goncharov. She edited three volumes on cross-cultural connections. Her main interests are in the nineteenth-century Russian novel and contemporary literary processes in Russia.

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Published

1992-06-01

How to Cite

Mondry, Henrietta. 1992. “Bakhtin’s ‘Carnivalesque’ and Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug”. Journal of Literary Studies 8 (1/2):7 pages. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/19818.

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Vol. 8 No. 1/2 (1992)

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Copyright (c) 1992 Henrietta Mondry

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