The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

by Mikhail Bakhtin

Book Overview

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292715277
• ISBN13: 9780292715271
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 6.00 lbs.