![]() Carnivals, unlike official, feudal, political ceremonies, were offering a kind of nonofficial type of worldly experience. There were no footlights everyone was participating. Moreover, there was no distinction between spectators and actors. Carnivals were standing between art and life. Additionally there was a distinction between the two concepts carnivals and theatrical performances. He states that the form of carnivals was distinct from the official ceremonies. He divides this main heading in three categories ritual spectacles, comic verbal compositions, various genres of billingsgate, and tries to interpret the human behaviors in carnival activities. He intends to reconstruct a new method in order to evaluate his writings accordingly and therefore begins to define important characteristics of folk culture. For him, Rabelais is the most difficult classical author of world literature and it is impossible to understand him with ongoing artistic and ideological conceptions. Mikhail Bakhtin begins his work, Rabelais and His World with an introductory essay. ![]()
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