The Dialogic Imagination Four Essays

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 660 pages
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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 : Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311573500

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The Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays by Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin Pdf

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 384 pages
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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 : Katerina Clark,Michael Holquist
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Mihail Mihajlovič Bahtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1132593994

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The Dialogic Imagination by Mihail Mihajlovič Bahtin Pdf

Author : M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.

Author : Michael Holquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Ken Hirschkop
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Johannes Angermuller,Dominique Maingueneau,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270184

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The Discourse Studies Reader by Johannes Angermuller,Dominique Maingueneau,Ruth Wodak Pdf

Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities. The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now translated into English for the first time. Divided into seven sections – ‘Theoretical Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics’, ‘From Structuralism to Poststructuralism’, ‘Enunciative Pragmatics’, ‘Interactionism’, ‘Sociopragmatics’, ‘Historical Knowledge’ and ‘Critical Approaches’ – The Discourse Studies Reader offers a comprehensive overview of the main currents in discourse studies, both discourse theory and discourse analysis. With short introductions elaborating the broader context, the sections present key selections from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds by placing them into their respective epistemological traditions. The Discourse Studies Reader is an indispensable textbook for students and scholars alike who are interested in discourse theoretical questions and working with discourse analytical methods.

Author : Eric Alfred Havelock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780691657103

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The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences by Eric Alfred Havelock Pdf

This volume brings together studies by a distinguished classical scholar that address specific problems associated with the development of literacy in ancient Greece. The articles were written over a twenty-year period and published individually in various journals and books. They deal with Greece's technological and intellectual transition from a preliterate to a literate culture, showing the effects registered by the introduction of the alphabet as the written word came to replace its oral counterpart in the literature of Greece and of Europe. Eric A. Havelock is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics at Yale University. His numerous publications include The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics (Yale), Preface to Plato (Harvard), and The Greek Concept of Justice (Harvard). Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719014670

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Mikhail Bakhtin by Tzvetan Todorov Pdf

Author : Lee T. Lemon,Marion J. Reis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803254601

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Russian Formalist Criticism by Lee T. Lemon,Marion J. Reis Pdf

"Some of the most important literary theory of this century."--College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.

Author : Gary Saul Morson,Caryl Emerson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804718226

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Mikhail Bakhtin by Gary Saul Morson,Caryl Emerson Pdf

Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Indeed, in a career spanning some sixty years, he experienced both dramatic and gradual changes in his thinking, returned to abandoned insights that he then developed in unexpected ways, and worked through new ideas only loosely related to his earlier concerns Small wonder, then, that Bakhtin should have speculated on the relations among received notions of biography, unity, innovation, and the creative process. Unity--with respect not only to individuals but also to art, culture, and the world generally--is usually understood as conformity to an underlying structure or an overarching scheme. Bakhtin believed that this idea of unity contradicts the possibility of true creativity. For if everything conforms to a preexisting pattern, then genuine development is reduced to mere discovery, to a mere uncovering of something that, in a strong sense, is already there. And yet Bakhtin accepted that some concept of unity was essential. Without it, the world ceases to make sense and creativity again disappears, this time replaced by the purely aleatory. There would again be no possibility of anything meaningfully new. The grim truth of these two extremes was expressed well by Borges: an inescapable labyrinth could consist of an infinite number of turns or of no turns at all. Bakhtin attempted to rethink the concept of unity in order to allow for the possibility of genuine creativity. The goal, in his words, was a "nonmonologic unity," in which real change (or "surprisingness") is an essential component of the creative process. As it happens, such change was characteristic of Bakhtin's own thought, which seems to have developed by continually diverging from his initial intentions. Although it would not necessarily follow that the development of Bakhtin's thought corresponded to his ideas about unity and creativity, we believe that in this case his ideas on nonmonologic unity are useful in understanding his own thought--as well as that of other thinkers whose careers are comparably varied and productive.

Author : Mikhail Bakhtin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452900124

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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin Pdf

This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky’s studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.