This article explores the use of different techniques in carnival and carnivalized texts in the creation of new meanings and alternatives, as Mikhail Bakhtin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman did, the former regarding the social hierarchy and the latter more on feminist issues. Its main objective is to provide an overview on some diverse devices that are used in relation to the fight against authori...

The article offers an analysis of the concept “intertext” that has been put forward by Julia Kristeva in her work “The Destruction Poetics” comparison with Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea a universal context and “infinite dialogue”. It is concluded incorrectly perceived thoughts about dialogue, which are personalistic nature contrast to Kristeva’s impersonal one based on Freudian-driven “It” social fact...