Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges

By Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

The essays in Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges extend Bakhtin's concepts in important new directions and challenge Bakhtin's own use of his most cherished ideas. Four sets of paired essays explore the theory of parody, the relation of de Man's poetics to Bakhtin's dialogics, Bakhtin's approach to Tolstoy and ideological literature generally, and the dangers of dialogue, not only in practice but also as an ideal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810108100
• ISBN13: 9780810108103
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"