The Return of the Carnivalesque in the Last of Us: Fantastic Birth and Bad Puns / EZE, 2025

On Fantastic Birth

Fantastique (Wikipedia)

Gargantua and Pantagruel: Gargantua's Birth

Gargantua and Pantagruel: Pantagruel's Birth

Pantagruel and the Grotesque

The Last of Us: Ellie's Birth

The Last of Us: Ellie's Birth

On Literary Interpretation

Bakhtin

Grotesque

Unofficial Bodies

Grotesque

On Bosch

Bosch

The Grotesque

On Denouement

Unfolding the Story

A Digression on Bad Puns and Game Culture

Rabelais

Bad Puns

Bakhtin

Bakhtin

Game Culture

Game Culture

On Incongruity

Immunity, Gigantism

Humor

On Humor

Resistance

Protest

Notes

On Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel (Wikipedia)

Gargantua and Pantagruel (Project Gutenberg)

The Last of Us (Wikipedia)

Carnivalesque (Wikipedia)

Carnivalesque

Carnivalesque

Frye and Bakhtin

Question

 How Does the Carnivalesque Relate to the Asemic?