Mikhail Bakhtin, author and hero. Translated from Italian by V.N. Belov

Passages taken from Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World

Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1984). For a fuller understanding of Bakhtin's work one should read the work in full, but I hope the following will serve to introduce Bakhtin's concepts to beginning students of renaisance drama. Page numbers after particular passages refer the reader to the book. "Bakhtin's carnival, surely the most productive concept in this book, is not only ...

Gender Representation of Emotions in the Novel A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

The article deals with emotions represented through images of the characters of M.Y. Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time. The author consecutively analyzes elements of the text, in which emotions of male and female characters are nominated, directly expressed and described. The number of lexical units and text elements involved in the representation of a particular emotion is recorded in...

An Investigation into Nikzad Nodjumi’s Works of Art Based on Carnival Theory by Mikhail Bakhtin

Abstract                                                The world has faced complicated upheavals nowadays. Man has always tried to forsake these disasters and calamities and find an answer for them. He looks for a way to express these contrasts and conflicts in warning, intricate and thought provoking works of art. Nikzad Nodjoumi, one of the contemporary artists shows these oppositions by g...

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From Hero to Zero

This article discusses the identity processes involved in the transition to retirement for emergency service workers, which includes police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel. The author conducted a study using the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT) to determine what helped, hindered and might have helped emergency service workers in making decisions regarding ret...