The Dialogic Imagination

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The Dialogic Imagination (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)

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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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