200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century’s most influential literary theorists. This accessible introduction to his thought begins with the questions ‘Why Bakhtin?’ and ‘Who was Bakhtin?’, before dealing in detail with his ideas on authorship and subjecthood, language, dialogism, heteroglossia and the novel, the chronotope, and the carnivalesque. True to their dialogic spirit, these ideas... Read more
Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Why Bakhtin? 2. Who was Bakhtin? 3. Selves and Others 4. Authors and Heroes 5. Translinguistics 6. Dialogism 7. Heteroglossia and the Novel 8. Chronotope 9. Carnival 10. Genre 11. After Bakhtin Further Reading
Biography
Alastair Renfrew is a Reader in English and Comparative Literature at Durham University, UK.
