Carnavalesque

Also known as carnivalesque, Carnival Commission

thumb|upright=1.5|The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559)]] The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's ''Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His World. For Bakhtin, "carnival" (the totality of popular festivities, rituals and other carnival forms) is deeply rooted in the human psyche on both the collective and individual levels. Though historically complex and varied, it has o