Maryam Navidi1 , Fazel Asadi Amjad2
1PhD Candidate of English Language and Literature, Tehran University, Alborz Campus, Iran. Navidi.m@ut.ac.ir
2Full Professor of English Language and Literature, Tehran, Tarbeyat Moalem University, Iran. Asadi @ khu.ac.ir
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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.11
Received April 07, 2017; Revised July 24, 2017; Accepted July 27, 2017; Published August 10, 2017.
Abstract
This study is attempt to examine Bakhtin’s Carnivalism as international theory in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. The proposed goal in the study concerns with Bakhtin’s Carnivalism as the rhizomatic, discriminative, international theory. The major concern of this argument is to historically and internationally goes beneath the surface level of Carnivalism, in order to lay bare the multiple labyrinth of this theory due to historical facts. It supposes that Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus has depicted Carnivalism in trans-cultural ways that erasing the cultural, ritual difference of people, in order to make the cohesive combined hybrid which is visible in the characters of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, such issues bears the various studies in the different fields.
Keywords: Carnvalism, Play, Shakespeare, History, Character.
