"The end of the twentieth century is marked by historic changes in nation-states and in the concepts of the nation and of nationalism. The ten essays in this volume give to the reader an inquiry into the problem of the nation with, and sometimes surpassing, the help of Russian philosopher Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
San Diego Bakhtin Circle ( Barry A. Brown , Christopher Conway , Rhett Gambol , Susan Kalter , Laura E. Ruberto , Tomás F. Taraborrelli , and Donald Wesling ) , eds . Bakhtin and the Nation . Special Issue of The Bucknell Review ( 43 ...
Bakhtin's passion for poetic language and his insights into music also come as a surprise to readers of his essays on the novel.
Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including...
"This book advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through ...
Explores the relevance of Bakhtin's thought to social theory.
Despite his basically formalist position, he does not shy away from limited sociological explanation of Dostoevskii, and he gives a fine gloss on Kaus. In asserting the impossibility of genuine polyphony in drama, Bakhtin omits the ...
... Jacques Roubaud Alexander Theroux René Crevel Rikki Ducornet Felipe Alfau Muriel Cerf Nicholas Mosley Patrick Grainville Thomas McGonigle Michael Stephens Julian Ríos Kenneth Tindall Pierre Albert - Birot Ralph Cusack Coleman Dowell ...
"Caryl Emerson has given us a major book on a major phenomenon, as readable as it is important, one that moves authoritatively from biography through literary and philosophical analysis to the cultural frameworks in which those matters take ...
This text explores Mikhail Bakhtin's reliance on the terms and concepts of theology.
There is, however, always the distracting presence of another temporality that disturbs the contemporaneity of the national present, as we saw in the national discourses with which I began. Despite Bakhtin's emphasis on the realist ...