Ship of Fools
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Recent papers in Ship of Fools
It is not an easy task to understand the nature of carnival as it is shown by the many failures of the last century after Mikhail Bakhtin’s work became generally known. My book is an attempt to define carnival in relation to another... more
This article explores the entanglement of the discourse of foolishness and the medial conditions of print in Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools (1494). To enable the reader to recognize his/her foolishness reflected in the “mirror” of the... more
When one thinks of the archetypical hero versus villain in the world of comics, Batman and The Joker often come to mind. They connect to the concept of the eternal battle between oppositions. Choosing a side, however, is relative. Heroes... more
An overview of three curatorial carnival projects* against the background of a meta-historical so-called carnivalscape -- or the evolution of carnival from modern times to contemporary practices of carnival performance and carnivalesque... more
The trope of boat figures centrally in Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s travelling public artwork, Rubber duck (2007-2016); in the media images of migrant refugees arriving at European destinations by boat since 2015; and in British... more
В данной статье рассматривается лингвовизуальное явление средневековой Германии конца XV начала XVI вв. «Корабль Дураков» на основе применения филолого-исторического и иконографического метода. Определяются приемы и способы донесения... more
Truth, Foolishness and Redemption.