Description
Book SynopsisThese essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.
Trade ReviewThis magnificently edited and translated volume can be the beginning of a dialogue that will go beyond the monographic works of Bakhtin available in English up to now. -- Edward Wasiolek * Comparative Literature *
We are only now realizing, 20 years after the first English language translation of his work, that Bakhtin is one of the giants of 20th century social and cultural theory. * Voice Literary Supplement *
Returning us to an art of possibilities, not of answers, Bakhtin's dialogic imagination resembles a dialectical wrestling match with no referee and no winner. In the empyrean of literary theory, it's exactly what we need, now and then. * Genre *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Translation
- Introduction
- Epic and Novel
- From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse
- Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel
- Discourse in the Novel
- Glossary
- Index
