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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coates, Ruth, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Russian literature.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, however, to the Christian dimension of his work. Christianity in Bakhtin for the first time fills this important gap. 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. Particular attention is paid to the themes of Creation, Fall, Incarnation and Christian love operating within metaphors of silence and exile, concepts which inform Bakhtin's world view as profoundly as they influence his biography.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

ISBN:

9781107113510

1107113512

9780511003554

0511003552

9781280161704

1280161701

9780511116551

0511116551

9780511149337

0511149336

9780511309595

0511309597

9780511483127

0511483120

9780511053740

0511053746

OCLC:

475870113