Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics

by Caryl Emerson and Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Indeed, in a career spanning some sixty years, he experienced both dramatic and gradual changes in his thinking, returned to abandoned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804718229
• ISBN13: 9780804718226
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 9.0"