The Dialogic Imagination (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mikhail Bakhtin
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: Language or languages, Literature, Education or educators, Art or artists, Creative process
Form and Content
The Dialogic Imagination comprises four of the six essays originally published under the title Voprosy literatury i estetiki (1975; questions of literature and aesthetics). Made available for the first time in 1981 in competent, highly readable translations by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, the essays—“Epos i roman” (“Epic and Novel”), “Iz predistorii romannogo slova” (“From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse”), “Formy vremeni i xronotopa v romane” (“Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”), and “Slovo...
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