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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 48

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple choice

“This literary mode parallels the flouting of authority and inversion of social hierarchies that, in many cultures, are permitted in a season of …. It does so by introducing a mingling of voices from diverse social levels that are free to mock and subvert authority, to flout social norms by ribaldry, and to exhibit various ways of profaning what is ordinarily regarded as sacrosanct.”
The above description explains the concept of ________.

  1. Magic Realism
  2. Intertextuality
  3. Carnivalesque
  4. Heteroglossia

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Correct answer: (C) Carnivalesque

Explanation

The description (a season of carnival, inversion of hierarchies, mocking authority) is Bakhtin's carnivalesque as defined in Abrams's glossary.