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society: "Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold

, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

" (4, emphasis added). Paradoxically, when the professor discloses his human side—not yet distorted by his business-oriented self

—he tries to fascinate the student with a new effective mode of teaching, and in general, he treats Carol on equal terms

—leads to the student's hostile reactions and eventually, precipitates John's disempowerment. The student will base her charges against the professor exactly on his apparently The student will base her charges against the professor exactly on his apparently human acts and discourse. This incident palpably shows that carnivalization penetrates the deepest core of this play: what is human is not even recognized, and the evidently human seems to be inauthentic. WORKS CITED Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevski's Poetics. Ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984. Barthes, Roland. "Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers." Barthes: Selected Writings. Ed. Susan Sontag. Glasgow: Fontana, 1989. 379-403. Holmberg, Arthur. "The Language of Misunderstanding." Theater 24.1 (1992): 94-95. Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition

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