In 1973 Viktor Duvakin taped six interviews with Mikhail Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's personal views. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973, translated and annotated here from the tapes, offers a fuller, more flexible image of Bakhtin than we could have imagined beneath his now famous texts.
Presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse.
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.
Contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution
The earliest major work of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin
Michail M. Bachtin (1885-1975) hat in diesem Werk in Auseinandersetzung mit der russischen und deutschen Ästhetik und dem Saussureschen Sprachbegriff eine eigene semiotische Literaturtheorie entwickelt. Entfaltet wird sie am Beispiel des Werkes von François Rabelais. Denn um diesen Klassiker der Weltliteratur zu verstehen, ist nach Bachtin eine grundlegende Neuformulierung (literar-)ästhetischer und kulturtheoretischer Fragestellungen erforderlich. Welches ist die Relation eines literarischen Werkes zu seinem Kontext? In welcher Beziehung steht es zu den kulturellen und literarischen Traditionen - bei Rabelais heißt dies: in welcher Weise hat die volkstümliche Lachkultur sein Werk geprägt?
This book is the ideal introduction to the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin is becoming established as one of the giants of 20th century literary criticsm, despite his work being unknown in the West until the 1970's. This book is less about Dostoyevsky per se, rather a profound meditation on how Dostoyevsky's art exemplifies the central concern of Bakhtin, the concept of 'dialogism'. This idea defies a simple definition; the book in exploring manifold aspects of it, itself becomes truly dialogic. If you value Dostoyevsky as an artist, require an antidote to the chill winds of modern 'Theory', or simply appreciate genius at work, catch up with one of the best kept secrets in literature
»Sprechgattungen« nennt Michail Bachtin die formale, stilistische, expressive und dialogische Organisation unserer alltäglichen Äußerungen. Für das vorliegende Buch wurde das von ihm 1953 verfasste Manuskript zum Problem der Sprechgattungen neu übersetzt und durch Notizen und Vorbereitende Materialien sowie zwei weitere Fragmente, die erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegen, ergänzt. Die Texte zeigen, wie Bachtin linguistische Debatten der 1920 er Jahre wieder aufnimmt und mit seinen Thesen zum fremden, dialogischen und polyphonen Wort ergänzt. So formuliert er – zumindest implizit – auch einen Beitrag zum Verhältnis von Dialogizität und Performativität.