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- 1. characteristic of a carnival or festival; lively and exciting: "the market has a lively, carnivalesque atmosphere"
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- Carnivalesque
Person responsible for the conception and development of the plot, allegories and costumes to be presented by a samba school
Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His World. For Bakhtin, "carnival" (the totality of popular festivities, rituals and other carnival forms) is deeply rooted in the human p... Wikipedia
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