carnivalize

present singular third person carnivalizes · participle present carnivalizing · participle past carnivalized · past carnivalized

1. transitiveliteratureTo subvert (mainstream assumptions or literary styles) through humour and chaos.

   Gorenshtein carnivalizes Mother Russia herself and Ivanova carnivalizes love for Mother Russia.

   1995, Ellen E. Berry, Genders 22: Postcommunism and the Body Politic, page 47

   1 more example

   The audience is then rapidly transported to the bizarre and excessively corporeal world of the forest people who, mostly misshapen, mute, and genetically deformed, nonetheless convey a tremendous vitality that carnivalizes classical form with formlessness.

   1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: race, gender, and nation in contemporary Australian theatre