Meaning of carnivalize | Babel Free

Definitions

To subvert (mainstream assumptions or literary styles) through humour and chaos.

transitive

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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