The Bakhtin Reader

The Bakhtin Reader

Author: Pam Morris

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780340592670

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This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.


Rabelais and His World

Rabelais and His World

Author: Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780253203410

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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.


The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin

The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin

Author: Caryl Emerson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0691187037

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Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. In this candid assessment of his place in Russian and Western thought, Caryl Emerson brings to light what might be unfamiliar to the non-Russian reader: Bakhtin's foundational ideas, forged in the early revolutionary years, yet hardly altered in his lifetime. With the collapse of the Soviet system, a truer sense of Bakhtin's contribution may now be judged in the context of its origins and its contemporary Russian "reclamation." A foremost Bakhtin authority, Caryl Emerson mines extensive Russian sources to explore Bakhtin's reception in Russia, from his earliest publication in 1929 until his death, and his posthumous rediscovery. After a reception-history of Bakhtin's published work, she examines the role of his ideas in the post-Stalinist revival of the Russian literary profession, concentrating on the most provocative rethinkings of three major concepts in his world: dialogue and polyphony; carnival; and "outsideness," a position Bakhtin considered essential to both ethics and aesthetics. Finally, she speculates on the future of Bakhtin's method, which was much more than a tool of criticism: it will "tell you how to teach, write, live, talk, think."


Choice Words

Choice Words

Author: Peter H. Johnston

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1571103899

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Shows teachers how to create intellectual environments that produce techinically competent students who are caring, secure, and activitely literate human beings


Introducing Bakhtin

Introducing Bakhtin

Author: Sue Vice

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780719043284

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The Russian critic and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin is once again in favor, his influence spreading across many discourses including literature, film, cultural and gender studies. This book provides the most comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin’s central concepts and terms. Sue Vice illustrates what is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism and heteroglossia. These concepts are then placed in a contemporary context by drawing out the implications of Bakhtin’s writings, for current issues such as feminism and sexuality. Vice’s examples are always practically based on specific texts such as the film Thelma and Louise, Helen Zahavi’s Dirty Weekend and James Kelman's How late it was, how late.


The Dialogic Imagination

The Dialogic Imagination

Author: M. M. Bakhtin

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 0292782861

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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.


Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

Author: Arnetha F. Ball

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-08-23

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521537889

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This 2004 book represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights the significance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories to modern scholarship in the field of language and literacy. Book chapters examine such important questions as: What resources do students bring from their home/community environments that help them become literate in school? What knowledge do teachers need in order to meet the literacy needs of varied students? How can teacher educators and professional development programs better understand teachers' needs and help them to become better prepared to teach diverse literacy learners? What challenges lie ahead for literacy learners in the coming century? Chapters are contributed by scholars who write from varied disciplinary perspectives. In addition, other scholarly voices enter into a Bakhtinian dialogue with these scholars about their ideas. These 'other voices' help our readers push the boundaries of current thinking on Bakhtinian theory and make this book a model of heteroglossia and dialogic intertexuality.


Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

Author: Mikhail Bakhtin

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-08-09

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1684480906

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This annotated book is a first English translation of 12-hours of interviews of Victor Duvakin with Mikhail Bakhtin recorded in 1973. From Freud to Kant, from the French Symbolists to the German Romantics, Bakhtin shares his knowledge and appreciation of various Western European authors and thinkers. As a result, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, invites us to reconsider the importance of Western art and thought to Bakhtin himself, and Russian culture in general.


Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

Author: M. M. Bakhtin

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 029278287X

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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.


Bakhtinian Thought:Intro Read

Bakhtinian Thought:Intro Read

Author: Simon Dentith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1134813996

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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.