Carnivalesque Motifs and Dialogic Laughter in the Guru Granth Sahib: A Bakhtinian Evaluation of Guru Nanak and Kabir.
The idea of this paper is to foreground the popular overtones of laughter and carnivalesque subversion in the Guru Granth Sahib, which Bakhtin sees as an indispensable part of all human history where people collectively express their consciousness against all normative or dogmatic forms of human lif...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 37 - 52 |
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