Shanti Elliot: “Carnival and Dialogue in Bakhtin's Poetics ...

The songs use such opaque means of persuasion that Trawick initially "misread the most powerful songs, thinking the singers were confused. The songs mix up verb tenses and gender and generational references in a . bewildering way; but through Bakhtin's discourse theory, Trawick discerns philosophical significance in these mix-ups. ................
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