The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics

by Mikhail Bakhtin, P. N. Medvedev

English, Russian (translation)

Genres: Theory, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Criticism, Literary Criticism

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1928

About the author

Very influential writings of Russian linguist and literary critic Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in 20th-century poststructuralism and the social theory of the novel included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929, see Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky) and The Dialogic Imagination (1975).

This philosopher, semiotician, and scholar on ethics and the philosophy of language. He on a variety of subjects inspired scholars in a number of different traditions of Marxism, semiotics, and religionand in disciplines as diverse as history, philosophy, anthropology, and psychology. Although Bakhtin acted in the debates on aesthetics that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, scholars rediscovered his not well known distinctive position in the 1960s.

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Reviews

[Emanuel Lupaşcu · Rating 5 out of 5]

una dintre cele mai bune cărți de teorie literară

[Illiterate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Attacks formalism. Defends concrete utterances & historical categories. Recommended as antidote to new criticism, deconstruction, Yale school, etc.

[sologdin · Rating 1 out of 5]

likely written by medvedev, rather than bakhtin proper. a consideration of vanilla russian formalism from the perspective of the bakhtin circle.