| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 444 pages) |
| Series |
University of Texas Press Slavic series ; no. 1 |
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University of Texas Press Slavic series ; no. 1
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| Contents |
Epic and novel -- From the Prehistory of novelistic discourse -- Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel -- Discourse in the novel |
| Summary |
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. The Dialogic Imaginationpresents, in superb English translation, four selections fromVoprosy literatury i estetiki(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 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Translation of Voprosy literatury i ėstetiki |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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Literature -- Aesthetics.
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Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Literature
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fiction (general genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Literature -- Aesthetics
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Fiction
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Literature
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Romans.
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Dialogisme.
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Literatuurtheorie.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Literature
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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Romans.
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Littérature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holquist, Michael, 1935-2016, editor
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| LC no. |
80015450 |
| ISBN |
9780292792579 |
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0292792573 |
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