The Bakhtin circle and ancient narrative / edited by R. Bracht Branham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Branham, Robert Bracht, editor.

Series:

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 3.

Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 1568-3540 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek fiction--History and criticism.

Greek fiction.

Latin fiction--History and criticism.

Latin fiction.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Other Title:

Ancient narrative

Place of Publication:

Groningen : Barkhuis : Groningen University Library, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) has become a name to conjure with. We know this because he is now one of those thinkers everyone already knows-without necessarily having to read much of him! Doesn't everyone now know how polyphony functions, what carnival means, why language is dialogic but the novel more so, how chronotopes make possible any concrete artistic cognition and that utterances give rise to genres that last thousands of years, always the same but not the same? Like Marx and Freud in the twentieth century, or Plotinus and Plato in the fourth, a familiarity with Bakhtin's th

Contents:

Genre: theory and practice

The poetics of genre: Bakhtin, Menippus, Petronius / R. Bracht Branham

Plato's Symposium and Bakhtin's theory of the dialogical character of novelistic discourse / Kevin Corrigan & Elena Glazov-Corrigan

Epic, novel, genre: Bakhtin and the question of history / Ahuvia Kahane

Genre, aphorism, Herodotus / Gary Saul Morson

Rereading Bakhtin on ancient fiction

Dialogues in love: Bakhtin and his critics on the Greek novel / Tim Whitmarsh

Below the belt: looking into the matter of adventure-time / Jennifer R. Ballengee

Bakhtin and Chariton: a revisionist reading / Steven D. Smith

The limits of polyphony: Dostoevsky to Petronius / Maria Plaza

Centrifugal voices

Kristeva's novel: genealogy, genre, and theory / Richard Fletcher

Open bodies and closed minds? Persius' Saturae in the light of Bakhtin and Voloshinov / Francesca d'Alessandro Behr

Bakhtin and the ideal ruler in 1-2 Chronicles and the Cyropaedia / Christine Mitchell

Narrative, responsibility, realism / Francis Dunn.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789491431388

9491431382