The Carnivalesque Construction of a World: The Case of Big Fish, a Novel and a Film

This article introduces a new perspective on the concept of carnival as elaborated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Through a comparative analysis of Daniel Wallace’s work of fiction, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions and Tim Burton’s film based on it, an association between carnivalesque aesthetics and id...

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Main Author: Joe Montenegro Bonilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Costa Rica 2014-03-01
Series:Revista de Lenguas Modernas
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Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/13821