false 201852 1 These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. <i>The Dialogic Imagination</i> presents, in superb English translation, four selections from <i>Voprosy literatury i estetiki</i> (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another. 195299 1 6 1982 The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) total:226|5:95|4:89|3:34|2:7|1:1| 226 948 375 20 4 0 false false Thu Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Jul 19 06:29:07 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 07:07:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Feb 17 15:12:03 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 15:13:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 17 10:48:35 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 16 09:01:15 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 18:28:16 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 18:29:32 -0800 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 29 20:42:28 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 20:44:19 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 17 19:30:12 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 19:30:12 -0700 2009
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This guy was amazing.
It's pretty readable too.
All of these ideas coming from one of the most hectic periods in Russian history, from a guy who was pretty hounded...
anyway, I think this will change the way I read and write about novels. It really seems to give the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 27 10:39:15 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 18 18:11:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 21 06:48:25 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 06:55:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 24 10:52:40 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 18:40:57 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Oct 16 09:30:10 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 09:32:37 -0700 2007
Pretty dumb words, though, for such a smart book. ]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 03 12:34:14 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 12:35:32 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Feb 04 20:28:16 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 11:08:05 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Aug 10 02:36:56 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 02:37:43 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 19 09:42:43 -0700 2008 Fri May 08 06:27:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jun 25 12:43:58 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 12:44:24 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Dec 15 14:24:11 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 12:44:14 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 12:45:13 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Thu May 22 10:46:10 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 10:46:37 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=201852