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- Title
Witchhunt in northern Sweden: A Bakhtinian approach.
- Authors
Bodin, Per-Arne
- Abstract
The Russian Byzantinist Sergei Averintsev writes in a critical article about laughter in Bakhtin's interpretation of popular medieval culture that Bakhtin makes laughter too absolute and that he was wrong in maintaining that it has nothing to do with violence. I apply the reasoning of both authors on a historical phenomenon: the witch trials in Sweden, focusing on one precise geographical place. There seem to be many factors behind the witch trials, but their cultural manifestations demonstrate the qualities of reverse or carnival, culture although without having laughter as their main feature, and including violence as a main element.
- Subjects
BAKHTINIAN analysis; MEDIEVAL civilization; AVERINTSEV, Sergei
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1/2, p73
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Article