Aimed at students, this book provides the most comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin's central concepts and terms. Sue Vice illustrates what is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism and heteroglossia.
Aimed at students, this book provides the most comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin's central concepts and terms. Sue Vice illustrates what is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism and heteroglossia.
Bakhtin and medieval voices
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism, ' 'marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these po…
The language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin does not fall neatly under any single rubric - 'dialogism, ' 'marxism, ' 'prosaics, ' 'authorship' - because the philosophic foundation of his writing rests ambivalently between phenomenology and Marxism. The theoretical tension of these po…
"The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. Having established the strong presence of a Christian framework in his early philosophical essays, Ruth Coates explores the way in which Christ…
The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, however, to the Christian dimension of his work. Christianity in Bakhtin for the first…