carnivalesque

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• The carnivalesque and excessive way by which Bus Uncle becomes culturally legitimate, however, is not uniformly endorsed.

  Academic text (2016)

• The drama embraces both the grandeur and horror of war, cruelty and compassion, human and animal, demonization and idealization, tragic vision and carnivalesque inversion.

  Academic text (2017)

• Television incorporated some of these carnivalesque practices.

• In fact, the novel itself seems to carry out the same kind of carnivalesque profanation which Alarcon regrets having participated in as a young man.

  Academic text (1994)

• At the turn of the nineteenth century, there emerged a range of new forms of politically oriented carnivalesque spectacles and parades in which theater was literally "brought onto the streets."

  Academic text (2002)

• For Assange, the elites are the subversive Wikipedians, as it were, engaged in an anarchic, carnivalesque rebellion to undermine the legitimate governing institutions.

  Blog text (26)

• Unlike the stately and serious prologue to Henry V, where Shakespeare calls upon the audience to "swell the scene," Jonson creates yet another carnivalesque inversion: Littlewit shrinks the scene to fit the limited minds of his patrons.

  Academic text (2003)

• The festival turned into a carnivalesque celebration filled with laughter, costumes, and playful chaos.

• During the parade, the carnivalesque atmosphere allowed everyone to mock authority and enjoy the festivities.

Synonyms

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satirical

vscarnivalesque

• Literature

32 6.3

Using humor to make fun of people's faults, often about politics

creates a chaotic atmosphere that subverts social order rather than focused criticism

How Subversive

anarchic

5 7.4

carnivalesque

• Literature

9.1

mocking

2 4.5

satirical

• Literature

32 6.3

ironic

49 4.8

Surface Forms

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Etymology