Description: Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the genre's lifeblood.
Brief description: Charles Platter is a professor of classics at the University of Georgia.
Review Quotes: Carnival of Genres is important because it validates the ambiguity in Aristophanes, but also because it reveals the problem with valuing ambiguity for its own sake.
--Stephanie Nelson, Arion