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Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet period. The book's central aim in offering such a synthesis is to negotiate the poles of postmodernist subjectivism and 'traditional' materialism around which much current literary and critical theory has stagnated, and, as the title suggests, to point the way towards a newly conceived material basis for textual and literary analysis.

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Introduction: Between the Lines in the Soviet 1920s 1 The Problem of Material 2 Bakhtin and Dostoevsky beyond Formalism 3 The Problem of Material and the Problem of Genre 4 Representation and the Two Lines of Genre Theory in Bakhtin 5 A Neo-Idealist Theory of Genre 6 Speech Genres and Literary Genres, Conclusion: The Fates of Literary Theory

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 12/12/2006
      ISBN13: 9781900755948, 978-1900755948
      ISBN10: 1900755947
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet period. The book's central aim in offering such a synthesis is to negotiate the poles of postmodernist subjectivism and 'traditional' materialism around which much current literary and critical theory has stagnated, and, as the title suggests, to point the way towards a newly conceived material basis for textual and literary analysis.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Between the Lines in the Soviet 1920s 1 The Problem of Material 2 Bakhtin and Dostoevsky beyond Formalism 3 The Problem of Material and the Problem of Genre 4 Representation and the Two Lines of Genre Theory in Bakhtin 5 A Neo-Idealist Theory of Genre 6 Speech Genres and Literary Genres, Conclusion: The Fates of Literary Theory

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