The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov

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This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.
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Overview


This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780340592670
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication date: 9/1/2009
  • Series: Arnold Publications Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.57 (d)

Meet the Author


Pam Morris is Director of the Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 Critique of Saussurian Linguistics (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) 25
2 Critique of Freudianism (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) 38
3 Language as Dialogic Interaction (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) 48
4 Reported Speech as Index of Social Change (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) 61
5 Social Heteroglossia (Bakhtin) 73
6 Speech Genres (Bakhtin) 80
7 Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel: A Plurality of Consciousness (Bakhtin) 88
8 The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image (Bakhtin) 97
9 Double-Voiced Discourse in Dostoevsky (Bakhtin) 102
10 The Heteroglot Novel (Bakhtin) 112
(Note on the Two Stylistic Lines of the Novel) 120
11 Literature as Ideological Form (Bakhtin/Medvedev) 123
12 Critique of Formalism (Bakhtin/Medvedev) 135
13 Constructing a Sociological Poetics (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) 160
14 Genres as Ideological Forms (Bakhtin/Medvedev) 174
15 Aesthetic Visualizing of Time/Space: The Chronotope (Bakhtin) 180
16 The Serio-Comical Tradition of the Menippea (Bakhtin) 187
17 Folk Humour and Carnival Laughter (Bakhtin) 194
18 Carnival Ambivalence: Laughter, Praise and Abuse (Bakhtin) 206
19 The Banquet, the Body and the Underworld (Bakhtin) 226
A Glossary of Key Terms 245
Bibliography 253
Index 257
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