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Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century's most influential literary theorists. This accessible introduction to his thought begins with the questions 'Why Bakhtin?' and 'Who was Bakhtin?', before dealing in detail with his ideas on authorship and subjecthood, language, dialogism, heteroglossia and the novel, the chronotope, and the carnivalesque. True to their dialogic spirit, these ideas are presented not as a fixed body of knowledge, but rather as living and evolving entities, as ways of approaching not only the most persistent questions of language and literature, but also issues that are relevant across the full range of Humanities disciplines. Bakhtin emerges in the process as a key thinker for the Humanities in the twenty-first century.
The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical
thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet
1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it
directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western
theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia,
is increasingly challenged today. With the gradual retreat in
recent years of theory from the high ground of the Western
humanities, new work has emerged to suggest unexpected parallels
and to undermine others.
Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century's most influential literary theorists. This accessible introduction to his thought begins with the questions 'Why Bakhtin?' and 'Who was Bakhtin?', before dealing in detail with his ideas on authorship and subjecthood, language, dialogism, heteroglossia and the novel, the chronotope, and the carnivalesque. True to their dialogic spirit, these ideas are presented not as a fixed body of knowledge, but rather as living and evolving entities, as ways of approaching not only the most persistent questions of language and literature, but also issues that are relevant across the full range of Humanities disciplines. Bakhtin emerges in the process as a key thinker for the Humanities in the twenty-first century.
The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical
thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet
1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it
directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western
theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia,
is increasingly challenged today. With the gradual retreat in
recent years of theory from the high ground of the Western
humanities, new work has emerged to suggest unexpected parallels
and to undermine others.
Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet period. The book's central aim in offering such a synthesis is to negotiate the poles of postmodernist subjectivism and 'traditional' materialism around which much current literary and critical theory has stagnated, and, as the title suggests, to point the way towards a newly conceived material basis for textual and literary analysis.
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