The Dialogic Imagination

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780292782860

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The Dialogic Imagination by M. M. Bakhtin Pdf

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.

Author : Katsuya Hirano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226060736

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The Politics of Dialogic Imagination by Katsuya Hirano Pdf

In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo’s street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy. Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo’s cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era—the Meiji period—that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan’s history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imaginationprovides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation—and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it.

Author : Kendra Haloviak Valentine
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498204897

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Worlds at War, Nations in Song by Kendra Haloviak Valentine Pdf

Rather than representing the book of Revelation as a single "apocalyptic" genre, Kendra Haloviak Valentine demonstrates that the work in fact reflects several genres--apocalyptic, prophetic and liturgical--within the overall framework of an epistle. This study focuses on the sixteen hymns, a largely neglected part of the literary construction of the work. Responding to the insight of Mikhail Bakhtin that literary genres carry ways of thinking about the world, this important study calls attention to the multiple voices within the text that need to be heard--voices that soften the book's transcendent, future focus so that it is not allowed complete dominance. Hymns, as the sites of colliding and collaborating genres, engage the reader. Worlds at War, Nations in Song explores the role of these liturgical elements within the moral enterprise to suggest that the book of Revelation provides readers with a moral vision linking the future with the present. Readers are called to respond in worship and witness. By calling attention to the multiple voices within Revelation, Haloviak Valentine demonstrates the invalidity of seeking "one" correct interpretation. Recognizing this dialogic approach may help prevent the misinterpretations that led to such tragedies as Waco and Jonestown.

Author : Dale M. Bauer,Susan Jaret McKinstry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791495995

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Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic by Dale M. Bauer,Susan Jaret McKinstry Pdf

Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic assembles thirteen essays on the intersection of Bakhtin's narrative theory, especially his concept of dialogism. The book explores the dimensions of using Bakhtin for a feminist analysis and discerns the connections between feminist dialogics and cultural materialism. The authors offer various views ranging from studies of ecofeminism, gender theories of novelistic discourse, Bakhtin and French feminism, to analyses of contemporary novelists such as Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Pat Barker. Drawing on Bakhtin's sociolinguistics, this book provides an introduction to feminist work on Bakhtin and the development of a cultural politics of reading. Challenging questions are raised: What is dialogic feminism? Can Bakhtin's theories advance a feminist politics? How does a feminist dialogics fit into a materialist feminist practice? Can the "dialogic imagination" also describe some of the most radical moments within feminist thinking? The interdisciplinary focus of these responses represents the ongoing dialogue among literary critics, cultural theorists, and feminists.

Author : Mihail Mihajlovič Bahtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132593994

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The Dialogic Imagination by Mihail Mihajlovič Bahtin Pdf

Author : Katerina Clark,Michael Holquist
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0674574176

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Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark,Michael Holquist Pdf

Traces the life of Bakhtin, a Russian literary critic recently rediscovered, and discusses his major works on Freud, Dostoevsky, Rabelais, Marxism, and the philosophy of language.

Author : Michael Holquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134465408

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Dialogism by Michael Holquist Pdf

Michael Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings, providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. This edition includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography.

Author : Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311573500

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The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays by Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin Pdf

Author : Justine Tally
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 3825853640

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The Story of Jazz by Justine Tally Pdf

Since its publication in 1992, Jazz, probably Toni Morrison's most difficult novel to date, has illicited a wide array of critical response. Many of these analyses, while both thoughtful and thought-provoking, have provided only partial or inherently inconclusive interpretations. The title, and certain of the author's own pronouncements, have led other critics to focus on the music itself, both as medium and aesthetic support for the narration. Choosing an entirely different approach for The Story of Jazz, Justine Tally further develops her hypothesis, first elaborated in her study of Paradise, that the Morrison trilogy is undergirded by the relationship of history, memory and story, and discusses "jazz" not as the music, but as a metaphor for language and storytelling. Taking her cue from the author's epigraph for the novel, she discusses the relevance of storytelling to contemporary critics in many different fields, explains Morrison's choice of the hard-boiled detective genre as a ghost-text for her novel, and guides the reader through the intricacies of Bakhtinian theory in order to elucidate and ground her interpretation of this important text, finally entering into a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the novel which leads to a surprising conclusion.

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780292773295

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Art and Answerability by M. M. Bakhtin Pdf

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Art and Answerability contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations, and manifesto writing of the period. Because they predate works that have already been translated, these essays—"Art and Answerability," "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity," and "The Problem of Content, Material, and Form in Verbal Art"—are essential to a comprehensive understanding of Bakhtin's later works. A superb introduction by Michael Holquist sets out the major themes and concerns of the three essays and identifies their place in the canon of Bakhtin's work and in intellectual history. The introduction, together with Vadim Liapunov's scholarly gloss, makes these essays accessible to students as well as scholars.

Author : Ken Hirschkop
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107109049

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The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop Pdf

A concise, readable and up-to-date introduction to Bakhtin, which provides students with an accessible but sophisticated guide to his work.

Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253203414

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Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin Pdf

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

Author : Michael J. Toolan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415231749

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Narrative by Michael J. Toolan Pdf

This classic text has been substantially rewritten. Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed. New material includes sections on gendered narrative, film narrative and a discussion of ways in which the internet and global television are changing conceptions of narrative.

Author : F. Bostad,C. Brandist,L. Evensen,H. Faber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230005679

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Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture by F. Bostad,C. Brandist,L. Evensen,H. Faber Pdf

In this multi-disciplinary volume, comprising the work of several established scholars from different countries, central concepts associated with the work of the Bakhtin Circle are interrogated in relation to intellectual history, language theory and an understanding of new media. The book will prove an important resource for those interested in the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle, but also for those attempting to develop a coherent theoretical approach to language in use and problems of meaning production in new media.

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780292782877

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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M. M. Bakhtin Pdf

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.