E. E. Cummings, Jacques Prevert, and Bakhtin's carnival (Mikhail Bakhtin).

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Strictly speaking, dialogue is a concept that developed in Bakhtin's thought independently from his theory of carnival. He nevertheless in the fourth chapter of his reworked Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics makes the case for the diachronic merging of the two ideas. For Bakhtin, Dostoevsky sits at the apogee of the development of the serio-comic genres which are all suffused with carnivalesque and dialogic elements. Carnival and dialogue, however, can and should be extended past Dostoevsky in certain appropriate cases. When Bakhtin's notion of the "carnivalization of dialogue" is brought into contact with Cummings and Prevert, new perspectives on these two wide-ranging writers open up. Both authors' work, their prose and plays as well as their poetry, can be viewed as allowing room for the coexistence of multiple and distinctly antithetic positions. The two major voices expressed in their writings, that of the carnivalesque self and of the external controlling and/or controlled official other, enter into dialogue with each other throughout their work in various manners.