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When the Carnival Turns Bitter: Preliminary Reflections upon the Abject Hero

A master and his slave, a monarch and his fool, a philosopher and a madman: even as the particulars of the roles change with the epoch and social milieu, the underlying configuration seems to remain the same. Irrespective of the specific work in which such pairings occur, we respond, long before the details of the argument clearly emerge, to a convention whose power rests upon its promise to subvert our notion of power and convention and to a fixed set of characters whose dialogue will undermine our trust in stable identities and fixed character traits. At the center of