Mikhail Bakhtin (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Caryl Emerson, Gary Saul Morson
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Twentieth century, Literature, Novelists, Creative process, Ethics, Mathematics or mathematicians
The publication of Rabelais and His World (1968) in the United States just a few years after its author’s rediscovery in the Soviet Union helped prepare the way for the explosion of Western interest in the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important and exciting theorists, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Imagination (1981), a gathering of four essays from the 1930’s and 1940’s; Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1984), the significantly revised second (1963) edition of the book first published in 1929; the reissue of the Rabelais book by...
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