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The Carnivalesque and Contemporary Narrative: Popular Culture and the Erotic

Abstract: The revalorizing of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin today does not appear to be based on his particular insights into particular author's works. Instead it is the general suggestiveness and even the incompleteness of Bakhtin's theories that have attracted critical attention. It has been suggested, for instance, that contemporary narrative illustrates even more clearly than does Dostoevsky's fiction the polyphony and dialogism that Bakhtin so prized. 1 Perhaps we can go one step further and argue that fictional narrative forms today are, in fact, a very extreme and self-conscious version of the novel as defined by Bakhtin. And this is true even within the limitations of Bakhtin' s very selective notion of the genre 2 as parodic, self-reflexive, and non-monologic.