Literature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century
are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the
eclipse of character and the "nothingness of personality," as
Borges put it. Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood
developed by one of the most influential literary theorists of the
last century: Mikhail Bakhtin. He finds in Bakhtin a personalism
based on the idea of an ongoing dialogue between authors and their
heroes in imaginative literature. Such a model of
inter-personality, Reed argues, allows us to appreciate the rich
possibilities of personhood set forth in the earlier
nineteenth-century period of Romanticism. Elaborating a new general
theory and providing close readings of classic works of Romantic
poetry and fiction, Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin offers
a better understanding of the preoccupation with the individual,
creative self that lay at the heart of this revolutionary
literature that still speaks to readers today.
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