Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.47960/2303-7431.26.2021.82
CARNIVAL OF INTERTEXTUALITY: KURT VONNEGUT’S TIMEQUAKE
Lovorka Gruić Grmuša
orcid.org/0000-0002-4187-2652
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
This paper analyzes Kurt Vonnegut’s hybrid genre text Timequake (1997),
which with its dialogism and intertextual references to other texts and
film creates new meanings and appears as a carnival of intertextuality.
The study is informed by Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality,
which perceives the text as an open productivity (Kristeva, 1980), and
by Bakhtin’s theory of carnival conflated with polyphony and dialogism,
which articulate a unity of uninterrupted continuity and metamorphosis,
“of the world’s revival and renewal” (Bakhtin, 1984), where a variety
of colliding voices come into contact in a collective dialogue. The dynamic
relationship of comic and dramatic recontextualizations between
this and other texts, or body of texts, and mediums, illuminates how this
interrelationship highlights the transposition and subversion of meaning,
as well as the transgression and carnivalization, which augment the
discursive reversals between referential and self-referential, fact and fiction.
Keywords
intertextuality; carnivalization; dialogism; Kurt Vonnegut; Mikhail Bakhtin; Julia Kristeva
Hrčak ID:
279961
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Publication date:
23.6.2022.
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