The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin: From Word to Culture

by David K. Danow, Jeremy Seekings

Overview

Occupying a still evolving but clearly established place in twentieth-century intellectual history, the great Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin is best characterized as philosopher of dialogue or human communication. Within Bakhtin's rich body of thought are numerous insights that promise fruition in fields that include linguistics and semiotics, literary theory and poetics. From their linked perspectives The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin approaches its subject, concentrating on problems of language and literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333556320
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/23/1991
Series:	From Word to Culture
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Bakhtin and His Circle - The Word - The Novel - Self and Other - The Prague School - The Moscow-Tartu School - Dialogic Poetics - Notes - Bibliography - Index