文档介绍：识的理论和实践的关系。狂欢化理论为《马戏团之夜》提供了理论基础,而《马戏团之夜》反之证实了狂欢化理论在文学创作中的存在性。毫无疑问,卡特是一位女性主义作家,她对于狂欢化的运用仅仅局限于女性主义的批判范围以内,但正是因为在小说《马戏团之夜》中狂欢化的运用,才使得她的女性主义思想有了更积极的含义。关键词:狂欢化理论狂欢化特征巴赫金安吉拉?卡特《马戏团之夜》 III ABSTRACT Angela Carter (1940-92) isa famous feminist novelist of last century. Jeff VanderMeer concludes that Angela Carter, undoubtedly, isa20 th Century original. No matter what one thinks of her writing, noone can argue that she is ever less than unique. Magic realism, Surrealism, Fantasy, Science fiction, Gothic, Feminism, Post-modernism — allof these categories apply, and yet all are one-dimensional in their application to Carter; none of them, with the possible exception of surrealism, pass the full spectrum of her plishments. Angela Carter left behind an impressive literary legacy when she died in1992: nine novels, three collections of short stories, four collections of children ’s stories, two collections of journalism and one controversial critical essay — The Sadeian Woman — the most relevant to an appreciation of her novels. Nights at the circus isone of Carter ’s masterpiece. The publication of the novel quickly catches the critical attentions at home and abroad. A lotof researchers and critics have made the detailed analysis of this book from the perspective of feminism, magical realism, plex themes, etc. The diverse approaches and pluralistic perspectives of criticism reflect the inclusive nature of the novel itself. However, few have ever proposed theoretical connections between Angela Carter ’s Nights at the Circus and carnival features and given critical analysis in this line. Bakhtin is arguably the most original and yet the most misunderstood Russian thinker of the 20th century. His carnival theory, though greatly controversial , has been applied to the analysis of varied literary texts ever since its creation. The thesis tries a new interpretation with Bakhtin ’s carnival theory to uncover the profound carnival features in the novel. The thesis is divided into five ch