Christianity in Bakhtin : God and the exiled author / Ruth Coates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coates, Ruth.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Russian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Religion.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Philosophy.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Philosophy.

Religion.

Local Subjects:

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Summary:

"The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. Having established the strong presence of a Christian framework in his early philosophical essays, Ruth Coates explores the way in which Christian motifs, though suppressed, continue to find expression in the work of Bakhtin's period of exile, and re-emerge in texts written during the time of his rehabilitation."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Fall and incarnation in 'Towards a philosophy of the act'

The aesthetic gospel of 'Author and hero in aesthetic activity'

Was Bakhtin a Marxist? : the work of the Bakhtin Circle, 1924-1929

Falling silent : the critical aesthetic of Problems of Dostoevsky's creative work

The exiled author : 'Discourse in the novel' and beyond

Christian motifs in Bakhtin's carnival writings

The fate of Christian motifs in Bakhtin's work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-199) and index.

Conference on Christianity & Literature Book of the Year Award, Winner, 1999

Other Format:

Online version: Coates, Ruth. Christianity in Bakhtin.

ISBN:

0521572789

9780521572781

OCLC:

38732008

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