TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakhtin,M.M.
AU  - Holquist,Michael
TI  - The dialogic imagination: four essays 
SN  - 97893838480508
PY  - 1981///, 2014
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Pinacle Learning
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes index; Translation of Voprosy literatury i estetiki; CONTENTS: Epic and novel -- From the Prehistory of novelistic discourse -- Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel -- Discourse in the novel
N2  - 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
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