Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2018.
Original scientific paper
FOLK VERSION OF THE CARNIVAL REPRESENTATION OF THE WORLD
Branka Brlenić-Vujić
; Faculty of philosophy in Osijek
Abstract
The present paper concentrates on the popular folk carnival tradition reflecting in the world of literature (Ante Kovačić, Miroslav Krleža, Ranko Marinković), while widening the possibilities of its semantics. Reduced carnival tradition where the principle of laughter has been taken over from the folk awareness in the merry relativity of everything that exists, pushes the boundaries of the fairy tale character and fantasy. Only an imagination of nightmare images of bodily topographies of an empty gaping mouth and open hungry insides could have created poetic images of inverted fairy tale imagination and a shift from realistic to fantastically-grotesque, to a simultaneity of impossible and possible. A world set this way was built on a literary and artistic mundus inversus behind which a subversive laughter imposes itself in dominance of the semiotic over sematic.
Keywords
carnival image of the world; folk heritage; mundus inversus; subversive laughter; Ante Kovačić; Miroslav Krleža; Ranko Marinković
Hrčak ID:
200201
URI
Publication date:
9.5.2018.
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