바흐찐의 그로테스크 리얼리즘의 관점에서 본 벤 존슨의 『바톨로뮤 시장』
Reading Bartholomew Fair from the Perspective of Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism
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How to appreciate a delicate balance between satiric criticism and festive release has been a central concern in the interpretation of Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair. Previous scholarships have generally inclined towards the satiric weight of the play. Their interpretational inclinations would be attributed to the tradition of classic realism which has supposed humans as rational beings regulated by ideas, moralities and consciousness. However, Bartholomew Fair is dramatic representation of Renaissance festivities, whose traits invite us to see the play from the perspectives of grotesque realism. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, grotesque realism valorizes the materialistic concept of human beings based on the principle of ever-growing, inexhaustible, ever laughing vitalities. Contrary to the bourgeois concept of men as close-circuit rational beings, it seeks to re-conceptualize cyclic processes of natural beings and lower bodily strata of unfinished becomings that are open to the outside world, namely, the mouth, the genital organs, the breasts, the phallus, the potbelly and the nose. This essay considers Bartholomew Fair to be a festive comedy by adopting grotesque realism as a critical methodology, and analyzes its carnivalesque world-views which suggest that the pursuit of liberty should be the courage to laugh.
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How to appreciate a delicate balance between satiric criticism and festive release has been a central concern in the interpretation of Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair. Previous scholarships have generally inclined towards the satiric weight of the play. Their interpretational inclinations would be attributed to the tradition of classic realism which has supposed humans as rational beings regulated by ideas, moralities and consciousness. However, Bartholomew Fair is dramatic representation of Renaissance festivities, whose traits invite us to see the play from the perspectives of grotesque realism. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, grotesque realism valorizes the materialistic concept of human beings based on the principle of ever-growing, inexhaustible, ever laughing vitalities. Contrary to the bourgeois concept of men as close-circuit rational beings, it seeks to re-conceptualize cyclic processes of natural beings and lower bodily strata of unfinished becomings that are open to the outside world, namely, the mouth, the genital organs, the breasts, the phallus, the potbelly and the nose. This essay considers Bartholomew Fair to be a festive comedy by adopting grotesque realism as a critical methodology, and analyzes its carnivalesque world-views which suggest that the pursuit of liberty should be the courage to laugh.
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