| The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bakhtin, M. M. (Author), Holquist, Michael (Editor), Emerson, Caryl (Translator) |
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ISBN: 029271534X ISBN-13: 9780292715349 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1982 Annotation: "This magnificently edited and translated volume can be the beginning of a dialogue that will go beyond the monographic works of Bakhtin available in English up to now." -- Edward Wasiolek, Comparative Literature 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| LCCN: 80015450 |
| Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Series |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.96" W x 8.98" (1.34 lbs) 480 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |