1st Edition

Mikhail Bakhtin The Word in the World

By Graham Pechey Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines. In this... Read more

1. Boundaries versus Binaries  2. Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde  3. Syntax and its Subversion  4. Chronotopicity and Conceptuality  5. The Novel and its Others  6. Eternity and Modernity  7. Philosophy and Theology  8. ‘First Philosophy’ and the ‘First’ Bakhtin

Biography

Graham Pechey was born in South Africa and educated at the universities of Natal and Cambridge. He has published numerous articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, Romantic writing, literary and cultural theory, and South African literature. Having retired in 2000 from lecturing in English at the University of Hertfordshire, he now teaches English part-time at the University of Cambridge and is a Research Associate at that university’s Centre of African Studies.