Bakhtin : Carnival and Other Subjects
Author : David G. Shepherd
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789051834505
Rabelais and His World
Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253203410
Book Description
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
Bakhtin and cultural theory
Author : Ken Hirschkop
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526183897
Book Description
An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin's contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst others. New articles explore the origins, previously unacknowledged, of Bakhtin's theory of language and provide a vivid account of the dramatic scandal surrounding Bakhtin's thesis on Rabelais. Contains dramatic new material, drawn from post-perestroika sources, which demythologizes the image of this important writer. A new bibliographical essay and introduction bring the English-language reader up-to-date with the progress of Bakhtin studies in Russia.
The Spirit of Carnival
Author : David K. Danow
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813191072
Book Description
The remarkable meshing of these two diametrically opposed yet inextricably intertwined facets of literature (and of life) makes for an intriguing sphere of investigation, for the carnival spirit is animated by a human need to dissolve borders and eliminate boundaries - including, symbolically, those between life and death - in an ongoing effort to merge opposing forces into new configurations of truth and meaning.
Bakhtin and his Others
Author : Liisa Steinby
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0857283103
Book Description
‘Bakhtin and his Others’ aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality – including his concepts of chronotope and literary polyphony – by reconsidering his ideas in relation to the sources he employs, and taking into account later research on similar topics. The case studies show how Bakhtin's ideas, when seen in light of this approach, can be constructively employed in contemporary literary research.
Materializing Bakhtin
Author : C. Brandist
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2000-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023050146X
Book Description
This volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics.
Bakhtin and the Classics
Author : Robert Bracht Branham
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The authors, eminent classicists and distinguished critics of Bakhtin, put Bakhtin into dialogue with the classics -- and classicists into dialogue with Bakhtin. Each essay offers a critical account of an important aspect of Bakhtin's thought and then examines the value of his approach in the context of a significant area of literary or cultural history. Beginning with an overview of Bakhtin's notion of carnival laughter, perhaps his central critical concept, the volume explores Bakhtin's thought and writing in relation to Homer's epic verse and Catullus's lyric poetry; ancient Roman novels; and Greek philosophy from Aristotle's theory of narrative to the work of Antiphon the Sophist.
Shakespeare and Carnival
Author : R. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1998-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230000819
Book Description
This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought.
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences
Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 1998-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761955306
Book Description
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays' implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin's work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as well as the relationship between Bakhtin's ideas and those of other important social theorists. In a lively introduction Gardiner and Bell discuss Bakhtin's significance as a major intellectual figure and situate his ideas within current trends and developments in social theory.
Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin
Author : T. Beasley-Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 023058960X
Book Description
This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels between Bakhtin's theories of responsibility, dialogue, and the novel, and Benjamin's theories of translation, montage, allegory, and the aura.
