tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post7336163727517743822..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: De Vogüé on St Benedict on Idle Speech & LaughterAaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-91863398067844382132009-10-08T14:13:32.903-05:002009-10-08T14:13:32.903-05:00I don't know. Apparently, there was a chapter...I don't know. Apparently, there was a chapter on Gogol in an early draft of Bakhtin's work on Rabelais, but it was omitted by the Soviet censor. Averintsev makes reference to it, but I don't quite understand where he's going with remarks.<br /><br />A number of years ago (long before I was Orthodox), I did some academic work on dialogism - hence my interest in Ugolnik (who is also both Eastern and Western in so very many ways).St. Matthew the Apostle Orthodox Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06969240942813338416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-57739074576954250862009-10-08T11:19:14.412-05:002009-10-08T11:19:14.412-05:00Fr Mark> I've not read that piece, though i...Fr Mark> I've not read that piece, though it sounds truly fascinating. It's not something I've paid a lot of attention to in Bakhtin studies, but I am somewhat familiar with Bakhtin on Carnival. B's always Russian in many ways, but it's clear that he's also a product of the West, even in theology.<br /><br />I wonder how Gogol or Mikhail Bulgakov would fit into such a study...Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-80037047401005429662009-10-08T09:21:11.383-05:002009-10-08T09:21:11.383-05:00Laughter and Orthodox piety in the West is a rich ...Laughter and Orthodox piety in the West is a rich topic that would be worthy of consideration.<br /><br />Are familiar with Sergei Averintsev's "Bakhtin and the Russian Attitude towards Laughter," published in a collection on Bakhtin's study of Carnival?<br /><br />It's a really fascinating study, noting the "Franciscan turn" in western Catholic piety that effectively redeemed certain kinds of laughter. Orthodoxy - both Byzantine and Russian - never made the same turn. I commend it, though it raises deeply disconcerting questions for our spiritual lives.<br /><br />- Fr MarkSt. Matthew the Apostle Orthodox Churchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06969240942813338416noreply@blogger.com