objectification of both men and women; how has this created an even bigger impact on events in our ever changing world? Has this enhanced our freedom in choosing which events we can attend or restricted us? This essay is focused on the works of Mikhail Bakhtin “Carnival and Carnivalesque” and his critique on cultural theory related to the events industry. This essay also looks at the works of Pierre Bourdieu; his “habitus and embodiment” theories and the way we have internalised the external environment
Through concepts and principles which we studied in the “dialogic communication studies”, “Dialogue” is a special form of communication that creates positive results for individuals, group, organization and communities. This concept has become a central of various theoretical perspectives in humanity and social sciences studies by looking at social relation and interaction as dialogue. In this essay I want to outline some dialogue schools related to my project which is about analyzing social media
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around the world. Storytelling and its dramatic counterpart – playing, have becomes essential to our progress as the species. In the 1920s Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher of culture, named the “patron of the humanities in the 1990s) also introduced his theory of dialogism, which became the basis of a new discipline dialogical anthropology. Bakhtin suggested that the dialog is an essential human condition, and a framework of culture, and all its derivatives – texts, stories, films, games
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argued point that the seeds of such literary language reside in what may be described, as the mundane, practical uses of ‘everyday’ talk and writing. This shift in opinion and approach to language study may be largely attributed to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who developed a social theory of language. Bakhtin’s main argument was that there should not be a special category in which to place literary language, as different and superior to the everyday, but that “literature was just one set of genres
The voices of a novel or work create a dimension all their own. Dialogical's creator, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, uses the key term of carnivalization to describe the "...diversities of speech and voice reflected in its structure" (HCAL 351). Mood and tone are derived from this and can be further amplified through the Formalistic Approach of
on the novel as a genre and the most famous Anglo-American modernist poet as a whole. Mikhail Bakhtin’s seminal study of ‘Discourse in the Novel’, written in 1934-35, and finally appearing in English translation in 1981, offers us an account of the difference between ‘poetic discourse’ and ‘novelistic discourse’. The division is not strictly a difference in to the novel and the poetry as genres. Often with Bakhtin we find that the novel assimilates all genres including poetry which he himself calls
as he hosts a TV game show called ‘Lashings of Lolly’, in which money replaces culture. Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th century Russian critic, studied the works of the medieval French writer and satirist, Rabelais, and defined the context of his work as medieval carnival. The decline and fall of everything deemed holy and the promotion of the profane is typical of the carnival world described by Bakhtin in his book, ‘Rabelais and his World’. C... ... middle of paper ... ...orgets where she
Gargantua and Pantagruel The story of Gargantua and Pantagruel is basically a satirical story of the french writer Francois Rabelais. Francois tells of the adventures of two giants, father and son, Gargantua and Pantagruel. They make fun of the vices and foolishness of the people and institutions of Rabelais's time. His humor is at times so dark and his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church so telling that it is difficult to believe that for most of his life he was a priest. I believe
place in the life of the medieval man” (Bakhtin 5). In short, Bakhtin uses French writer Francois Rabelais’ work to contrast the conceptual differences between official ceremony and the carnival. As a form of human culture, the official ceremony presents monolithic themes of hierarchy and politics in a stable and pure setting (Bakhtin 9). In contrast, the carnival presents opposing features like equality, laughter, and ambivalence. In addition, Bakhtin contrasts the difference between the literary
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov A review Set in Moscow during the darkest period of Stalin's regime, in the 1930s after the Russian Revolution, The Master and Margarita is a piece of literary alchemy. It is a fusion of Geothe's Faust, fragments of autobiography, an alternative version of the crucifixion of Christ, a tale of political repression and a meditation on the role of an artist in a society bereft of freedom and individuality. The book does not have a readily describable
which YUKOS was one of them. BY 1995, YUKOS was already having management problems and the government put 45% of the company’s shares up for auction. Shortly after, YUKOS became Russia’s first privately owned oil company. Under the direction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, YUKOS restructured and became a very profitable company. This success did not come without difficulties as YUKOS’s delivery system could not keep up with the company’s increasing output. But Khodorkovsky was up to the challenge and
philosophies above national and fugal divisions. The binary between folk and art music began much before the Baroque era, yet the use of folk was a significant feature of the Nationalist movement in art music during the 19th century. Composers such as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857), Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), and Edvard Greig (1843-1907) used folk influences in their compositions in fundamentally new ways; as part of the communal tradition of their heritage, as an organic spring of inspiration
In the 1980’s, the Soviet Union was coming to realize what they needed to be successful, whether it is economically, socially, or politically. The Soviet Union’s last leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was trying to reform the Soviet Union itself focusing more on the economic side of things, not the actual system itself. He introduced two different policies, Glasnost and Perestroika. These reforms helped the citizens of the Soviet Union, but caused other issues within the nation. When the nation could
The changes to the world brought about by the policies of former Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev were nothing short of revolutionary. The end of the Cold War (1947-1991) began by the extrication of the Soviet Bloc in June of 1989 in Poland. Their citizens elected a noncommunist government to legislature thereby standing in opposition of communism (The Reagan Years, 2014). The world sat holding its breath waiting for retaliation from Gorbachev – retaliation
Response to the Poem She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth The poem for me, illustrates a beautiful image of timelessness being interrupted. Lucy is almost portrayed as immortal; her beauty was so breath-taking. When she died, or "ceased to be", the author is just left astounded - "what has happened here?" My main inspiration for my story was the last paragraph. The character of Edward is ruled by routine. The war was a significantly distressing experience for him
Napoleon's Conflict with Russia Napoleon was one of the greatest military leaders of all time. By 1812 Napoleon had expanded the territory of France all over Europe including Spain, Italy, Holland, and Switzerland. The countries that Napoleon did not directly control, he was usually allied with. The turning point of Napoleon's career also came in 1812 when war broke out between France and Russia because of Alexander I's refusal to enforce the continental. Even the French nation could
Mikhail Gorbachev, a rising leader in the Soviet Union, implemented many reforms throughout his reign as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1985-1990, and president from 1990-1991. Born on March 2, 1931, Gorbachev was raised by a family of Russian peasants. In 1946, at the young age of fifteen, he joined the Komsomol (Young Communist League). After proving to be a promising member, he enrolled in Moscow Sate University and became a member of the Communist Party. Mikhail Gorbachev held
After a decade of national defeatism and despair after the Vietnam War, the America people were ready for something new, something to believe in and along came this charming, charismatic cowboy ready to be their saviour. From being an actor, salesman, over to governor and finally becoming America’s 40th president, one wonders whether it was Reagan’s charisma, that won the hearts of the American’s or was it his brilliant politics? In order to determine whether Reagan’s presidency was truly transformative