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Published Online: May 23, 2020
Page range: 49 - 61
Received: Jun 03, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.060.10613
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© 2019 Beata Malinowska-Petelenz et al., published by Sciendo
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A glass pyramid, a sphinx and a Medieval Excalibur, an Eiffel tower, a Statue of Liberty, a Ponte Rialto with an escalator and a canal sailed by gondolas with Mickey Mouse – these are the faces of Las Vegas. Kitsch, excess and chaos are concepts that form the universe of the semantics of Las Vegas. We can also attempt to understand this identity, distinct both in its unbridled form and the ideas represented by the city, by referring to Bakhtin’s concept of the carnival.