| Author | : David G. Shepherd |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789051834505 |
Rabelais and His World
| Author | : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780253203410 |
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
The Spirit of Carnival
| Author | : David K. Danow |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2004-05-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780813191072 |
The remarkable meshing of these two diametrically opposed yet inextricably intertwined facets of literature (and of life) makes for an intriguing sphere of investigation, for the carnival spirit is animated by a human need to dissolve borders and eliminate boundaries - including, symbolically, those between life and death - in an ongoing effort to merge opposing forces into new configurations of truth and meaning.
Bakhtin and cultural theory
| Author | : Ken Hirschkop |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2024-06-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1526183897 |
An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin's contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst others. New articles explore the origins, previously unacknowledged, of Bakhtin's theory of language and provide a vivid account of the dramatic scandal surrounding Bakhtin's thesis on Rabelais. Contains dramatic new material, drawn from post-perestroika sources, which demythologizes the image of this important writer. A new bibliographical essay and introduction bring the English-language reader up-to-date with the progress of Bakhtin studies in Russia.
Bakhtin and his Others
| Author | : Liisa Steinby |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2013-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0857283103 |
‘Bakhtin and his Others’ aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality – including his concepts of chronotope and literary polyphony – by reconsidering his ideas in relation to the sources he employs, and taking into account later research on similar topics. The case studies show how Bakhtin's ideas, when seen in light of this approach, can be constructively employed in contemporary literary research.
Materializing Bakhtin
| Author | : C. Brandist |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2000-02-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 023050146X |
This volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics.
Bakhtin and the Classics
| Author | : Robert Bracht Branham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The authors, eminent classicists and distinguished critics of Bakhtin, put Bakhtin into dialogue with the classics -- and classicists into dialogue with Bakhtin. Each essay offers a critical account of an important aspect of Bakhtin's thought and then examines the value of his approach in the context of a significant area of literary or cultural history. Beginning with an overview of Bakhtin's notion of carnival laughter, perhaps his central critical concept, the volume explores Bakhtin's thought and writing in relation to Homer's epic verse and Catullus's lyric poetry; ancient Roman novels; and Greek philosophy from Aristotle's theory of narrative to the work of Antiphon the Sophist.
Shakespeare and Carnival
| Author | : R. Knowles |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 1998-05-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230000819 |
This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought.
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences
| Author | : Michael Bell |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1998-08-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780761955306 |
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays' implications extend into other fields in the human sciences. The volume emphasizes Bakhtin's work on dialogue, carnival, ethics and everyday life, as well as the relationship between Bakhtin's ideas and those of other important social theorists. In a lively introduction Gardiner and Bell discuss Bakhtin's significance as a major intellectual figure and situate his ideas within current trends and developments in social theory.
