Dialogics of Critique

by Michael Gardiner

As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book is designed to supply this demand. Elegantly written with the needs of the student coming to Bakhtin for the first time in mind, it provides the essential guide to this important and neglected thinker.

267 pages, ebook

Published July 2, 1992

About the author

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He has published on modern Scottish cultural history, post-British cultures, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the cultural politics of nuclear disarmament. His books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (2004), From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory since 1960 (2007) and At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas B. Glover (2008).