Godina izdanja: 1990
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Eseji i kritike
ISBN: Ostalo
Autor: Strani

Solidno ocuvana
G6
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 Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy 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.