Bakhtin at the Seaside: Utopia, Modernity and the Carnivalesque

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 121-138

  Webb, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blackpool; carnival; hope; mass culture; working class leisure

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744449448     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276405053724     Document Type: Article

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