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Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Reader » Read Now
by Simon Dentith. 265 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays » Read Now
by M. M. Bakhtin. 184 pgs.

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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin' Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin' extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman ) were written in...
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin' Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin' extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman ) were written in Bakhtin' later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.
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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History » Read Now
by M. Keith Booker, Dubravka Juraga. 186 pgs.

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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the...
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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Bakhtin's ideas are then placed in dialogic relation to the works of several important writers of modern Russian fiction, including Vassily Aksyonov, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Andrei Bitov, and Sasha Sokolov.
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Bakhtin and Medieval Voices » Read Now
by Thomas J. Farrell. 246 pgs.

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...History and criticism. 2. Bakhtin, M. M. Mikhail Mikhailovich 1883-1975. 3...Literature Thomas J. Farrell Mikhail Bakhtin was a critic and theorist of...thirty years later...
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A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies » Read Now
by Kay Halasek. 238 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies.
Framing her discussions at every level of the discipline -- theoretical...
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In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies.
Framing her discussions at every level of the discipline -- theoretical, historical, pedagogical -- Halasek provides an overview of portions of the Bakhtinian canon relevant to composition studies, explores the implications of Mikhail Bakhtin's work in the teaching of writing and for current debates about the role of theory in composition studies, and provides a model of scholarship that strives to maintain dialogic balance between practice and theory, between composition studies and Bakhtinian thought.
Halasek's study ranges broadly across the field of composition, painting in wide strokes a new picture of the discipline, focusing on the finer details of the rhetorical situation, and teasing out the implications of Bakhtinian thought for classroom practice by examining the nature of critical reading and writing, the efficacy and ethics of academic discourse, student resistance, and critical and conflict pedagogy. The book ends by setting out a pedagogy of possibility, what Halasek terms elsewhere a "post-critical pedagogy" that redefines and redirects current discussions of home versus academic literacies and discourses.
"No one working in this line of inquiry has yet come close to [Halasek] in articulating Bakhtin's views with those of the authoritative voices in composition studies; no one has recognized and developed the implications of his work across the key topics of the field from disciplinarity to history to theory to pedagogy; no one has managed, asshe has, to shift the ground of conversation in the field into Bakhtinian terrain, forcefully modifying the questions we need to ask and at the same time leaving open spaces for our investigating and debating them. This is o
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Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy » Read Now
by Ken Hirschkop. 332 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a...
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This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin's work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular festive culture, and the phenomenology of everyday life revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. A detailed examination of the major works reveals the careful interweaving of philosophical and historical argument which makes Bakhtin at once so compelling and so frustrating a writer. Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages, but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe. As a consequence, Bakhtin becomes a more sober but also more original writer, with a striking contribution to make to the definition of the democratic project.
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Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder » Read Now
by R. B. Kershner. 340 pgs.

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'The interpretations offered here are among the most sensitive and enlightening that I have seen. . .Kershner has produced an analysis with profound and diverse implications for further studies of Joyce and his culture.' -James Joyce Quarterly
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Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World » Read Now
by Michael Holquist. 234 pgs.

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Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. He argues...
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Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. He argues that Bakhtin's work gains coherence through his commitment to the concept of dialogue, examining Bakhtin's dialogues with theorists such as Saussure, Freud, Marx and Lukacs, as well as other thinkers whose connection with Bakhtin has previously been ignored. Dialogism also includes dialogic readings of major literary texts, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Gogol's The Notes of a Madman and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby , which provide another dimension of dialogue with dialogue.
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Feminism, Bakhtin and the Dialogic » Read Now
by Dale M. Bauer, Susan Jaret Mckinstry. 259 pgs.

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Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author » Read Now
by Ruth Coates. 201 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin, paying particular attention to the motifs of God the Creator, the Fall, the Incarnation and Christian love. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious...
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This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin, paying particular attention to the motifs of God the Creator, the Fall, the Incarnation and Christian love. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective, and introduces the reader to a vitally important but hitherto ignored aspect of his work. In this context Ruth Coates presents readings of Bakhtin very different from those of Marxist and Structuralist critics.
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Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics » Read Now
by Caryl Emerson, Gary Saul Morson. 538 pgs.

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Russian Thought After Communism: The Recovery of a Philosophical Heritage » Read Now
by James P. Scanlan. 238 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...in the thought and work of Mikhail Bakhtin . Her publications include...as well as the 1990 book Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics , coauthored...figures, Aleksei...
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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide » Read Now
by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and...
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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and summarizes several important utopian works to provide a background. The rest of the book summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films.
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Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources » Read Now
by Michael G. Moran, Michelle Ballif. 426 pgs.

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Much work has been done on rhetoric and rhetorical theory in the 20th century, with scientists discussing the rhetoric of the scientific method and philosophers debating the rhetoric of the metaphysical tradition. This reference summarizes major trends in rhetoric during the last hundred years...
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Much work has been done on rhetoric and rhetorical theory in the 20th century, with scientists discussing the rhetoric of the scientific method and philosophers debating the rhetoric of the metaphysical tradition. This reference summarizes major trends in rhetoric during the last hundred years. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 40 20th- century rhetoricians, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Edward P. J. Corbett, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Walter J. Ong, and I. A. Richards. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, an analysis of the figure's rhetorical theory, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. The volume concludes with extensive bibliographical material.
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Bakhtin and the Nation » Read Now
by Barry A. Brown, Christopher Conway, Rhett Gambol, Susan Kalter, Laura E. Ruberto, TomÁs F.T Taraborrelli, Donald Wesling, San Diego Bakhtin Circle. 194 pgs.

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Two Perspectives on Rabelais: Celine and Bakhtin, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Ann L. Murphy. 9 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the names of Soviet thinker Mikhail Bakhtin and French novelist Louis- Ferdinand...and Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin (Harvard University Press, 1984 ), p. 299. 9...