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Book SynopsisAs Bakhtin's writings have appeared in translation, Bakhtin has been hailed in disparate circles for his contributions to linguistic, psychoanalytic, and social theory. Here, the authors endeavor to give us the complete life and the complete works of this complex and multifaceted figure.
Trade ReviewAll future studies of Bakhtin will start here. Clark and Holquist succeed in portraying a man of immense versatility all of whose ideas nevertheless cohere around a central set of concerns which are fundamental to the thought of this century. The philosophical substance of the book is beautifully enmeshed with the biographical. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
This book…is the indispensable guide. It undertakes not only to explicate all of the major works, but also to set them in historical perspective (which requires a daunting breadth of erudition)… We have finally reached the core of Bakhtin’s thought, his ideas about language and literature and their implications for human life in general; and it is a consistently absorbing intellectual adventure. * The New Republic *
The authors have produced a brilliant combination of literary biography, intellectual history, and scholarly detection. -- Hayden White
Clark and Holquist have transformed our understanding of Bakhtin… This is an indispensable book. -- Stephen J. Greenblatt
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Corsican Twins, 1895-1917 2. Nevel and Vitebsk, 1918-1924 3. The Architectonics of Answerability 4. The Leningrad Circle, 1924-1929 5. Religious Activities and the Arrest 6. The Disputed Texts 7. Freudianism 8. The Formalists 9. Discourse in Life and Art 10. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language 11. Dostoevsky's Poetics 12. Kustanai, Saransk, and Savelovo, 1930-1945 13. The Theory of the Novel 14. Rabelais and His World 15. Saransk to Moscow, 1945-1975 Conclusion Select Bibliography Notes Index
