Synopses & Reviews
Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work none the less remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format a good 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.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-255) and index.
About the Author
Pam Morris is Director of the Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Table of Contents
Section 1: Dialogic Discourse - Critique of Saussurian Linguistics
Critique of Freudianism
Language as Dialogic Interaction
Reported Speech as Index of Social Change
Social Heteroglossia
Speech Genres
Section 2: The Heteroglot Novel - Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel: A Plurality of Consciousnesses
The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image
Double-Voiced Discourse in Dostoevsky
The Heteroglot Novel
Section 3: Literature as Ideological Form - Literature as Ideological Form
Critique of Formalism
Constructing a Sociological Poetics
Genres as Ideological Forms
Aesthetic Visualizing of Time/Space: The Chronotope
The Serio-Comical Tradition of the Menippea
Section 4: Carnival Ambivalence - Folk Humour and Carnival Laughter
Carnival Ambivalence: Laughter, Praise and Abuse
The Banquet, the Body and the Underworld
A Glossary of Key Terms
Bibliography
Index.