The novelness of Bakhtin : perspectives and possibilities / edited by Jørgen Bruhn & Jan Lundquist ; with preface by Michael Holquist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruhn, Jørgen.

Lundquist, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bakhtin, M. M.

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

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

Literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

213 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001.

Contents:

Introduction: A Novelness of Bakhtin? / Jorgen Bruhn, Jan Lundquist 11

I. Perspectives

Why Is God's Name a Pun? Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel in the Light of Theophilogy / Michael Holquist 53

Double Voicing, Sharing Words: Bakhtin's Dialogism and the History of the Theory of Free Indirect Discourse / Charles Lock 71

Lovens lange arm

The Long Arm of the Law. The Hidden Discourse of the Law in Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel / Arild Linneberg 89

Objective Narrative Theory

The influence of Spielhagen's 'Aristotelian' Theory of 'Narrative Objectivity' on Bakhtin's Study of Dostoevsky / Brian Poole 107

II. Possibilities

Gestures of the Unheard

on Style, Rhetoric, and Articulation in Novelistic Prose after Bakhtin: Two Novels of the Danish Author Peer Hultberg / Marianne Ping Huang 165

Epic and Novel in Magic Realism: from Bakhtin to Midnight's Children / Derek Littlewood 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

8772896019

OCLC:

46776174