The term comparative youth literature signifies the capability of knowing more than just one national language and literature, as well as the knowledge and application of other disciplines in the field of literature (Blažić, 2011). Literary works differ between each other either in writing style or in the number of roles.
In the master's thesis, with the title : A Comparative Analysis of Roald Dahl: The Twits and Andrej Rozman Roze: Mali rimski cirkus we present the Russian philosopher and literary theoretic Mihail Bahtin, and discuss his carnival theory, which will in the following be based on the work entitled Ustvarjanje Francoisa Rabelaisa in ljudska kultura srednjega veka in renesanse (Bahtin, 2008). This work is the basis for the literary analysis of the selected works by Roald Dahl: The Twits and Andrej Rozman Roze: Mali rimski cirkus. This is followed by a presentation of the elements of the carnival theory, and later the presentation and analysis of the authors, as well as illustrators, and their works. We were interested in the elements of carnival in the selected works, as well as the frequency of other elements or the lack of them.
The purpose of this master's thesis was to find and present the elements of carnival on the example of citations from the selected works, to note their frequency, show the style of writing of the authors, and in this way underline the guidelines of teaching for Slovenian language teachers.
In writing master's thesis, we used a descriptive approach to research. The descriptive method we used for defining theoretical concepts and describing the theory. Using the comparative analysis method, we analysed selected works among themselves, and used the comparative method in the concluding part, where we made a comparative literary analysis and summarized my own findings.
The aim of this master's work was, to present a subversive style of writing and to find the elements of carnival in their works. For the needs of the master's thesis, a table is presented in the empirical part, in which a literary analysis of two different authors is made, based on the types of carnival according to M. Bakhtin is presented.
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