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

 

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作者: Montenegro Bonilla, Joe
格式: artículo original
狀態:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2014
實物特徵: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 ideology is established and underscored. An attempt is made to recapitulate some of the major episodes of the fantastic journey of Edward Bloom, the hero in both texts, and his utopian path towards a society that accepts his own ideals. Thus, by means of a conscientious approach to both Wallace’s novel and Burton’s film, it is possible to confirm the validity and contemporaneity of carnivalesque ideology and how it continues to permeate various planes, not only of artistic production, but also of human experience and behavior. In sum, the analysis will focus on the processes and images that carnival provides for the construction of an ideologically-different world in Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions and Tim Burton’s film Big Fish.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
機構:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
語言:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/13821
在線閱讀:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/13821
Palabra clave:carnival
literature and film
Mikhail Bakhtin
fantasy
carnaval
literatura y cine
Mijaíl Bajtín
fantasía