The grotesque and Carnival in Roald Dahl's texts

This resource was designed to help stud look at Roald Dahl’s comedy in children’s literature. Also, students will locate elements of ‘carnivalesque’ in his works and in his characters. We will then look at the ‘grotesque’ or the ‘grotesque body’ which appears regularly throughout the texts. Keywords: Roald Dahl carnival, grotesque, Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais, comedy