바흐친으로 바이런 읽기:「돈 주안」 에 나타난 카니발적 언술

Reading Byron with Bakhtin: Carnivalesque Discourse in Don J uan

This study is to read Byron’s D on Juan with the theory of Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque discourse. The key phrase of the paper refers to various characteristics of the medieval popular carnival such as the carnivalesque ambivalence, the gay relativity, the inversion of the social hierarchy, and the people’s festive laughter demolishing the comic and political fear of death and oppression. I n D on Juan , through the character, Byron subverts the image of hero by representing an anti-hero. The motif of the carnivalesque can be found not only in the bedroom farce but also in the scene of shipwreck in “ S pain Episode.” I n view of Bahktin’s theory of the carnival, D on Juan ultimately celebrates the ambivalent but creative power of the carnivalesque discourse shared both by humanity and nature.