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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