carnivalizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

carnivalize (三人称単数 現在形 carnivalizes, 現在分詞 carnivalizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 carnivalized)

1. (transitive, literature) To subvert (mainstream assumptions または literary styles) through humour and chaos.
   • 1995, Ellen E. Berry, Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic, page 47:

     Gorenshtein carnivalizes Mother Russia herself and Ivanova carnivalizes love for Mother Russia.

   • 1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: race, gender, and nation in contemporary Australian theatre:

     The audience is then rapidly transported to the bizarre and excessively corporeal world of the forest people who, mostly misshapen, mute, and genetically deformed, nonetheless convey a tremendous vitality that carnivalizes classical form with formlessness.

関連する語

• carnivalization