This interdisciplinary volume of collected, unpublished essays demonstrates the importance of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning for a wide range of textual problems. The book is organized around three interlocking dimensions of this d…
"The contributors address such varied topics as rhetorical models for the establishment and exercise of political power, the relation between spoken and written discourse, and the idea of literature as social action. These essays, taken together, argue for a redefinition of lite…
This is a collection of previously unpublished essays, by both linguists and literary critics, on the relationship between spoken language and written text in the light of the thought of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin.
This interdisciplinary collection brings together essays by leading Bakhtin critics along with chapters by eminent scholars who have developed and extended Bakhtin's concept of dialogue. The volume presents a cross-section of recent dialogic approaches within literary theory, ph…