The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin / Ken Hirschkop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschkop, Ken, author.

Series:

Cambridge introductions to literature.

Cambridge introductions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bakhtin, M. M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts, Hirschkop explains Bakhtin's influential ideas, demonstrates their relevance and usefulness for literary and cultural analysis, and sets them in their historical context. In clear and concise language, Hirschkop shows how Bakhtin's ideas have changed the way we understand language and literary texts. Authoritative and accessible, this Cambridge Introduction is the most comprehensive and reliable account of Bakhtin and his work yet available.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Life

Youth: 1895-1917

Friendships: 1918-1929

Exile, Escape, and the War: 1930-1946

Saransk: 1946-1961

Rediscovery, Rehabilitation: 1961-1975

Chapter 3 Context

Philosophy: Influences and Options for the Young Bakhtin

Language: Soviet Struggles over Literary Criticism in the 1920s, and Bakhtin's Linguistic Turn

Excursus: Voloshinov's Linguistic Turn

Literature: Socialist Realism and Arguments about the Novel in the 1930s

The 1950s and 1960s: Consolidation and a Quiet Life

Chapter 4 Works

Some Preliminary Observations

List of Bakhtin's Published Works

Philosophical texts (author, hero, art, responsibility, the nature of the human sciences): 1919 onwards

Bakhtin does literary criticism: 1923 onwards

Works on Dostoevsky (dialogism as 'polyphony'): 1929 onwards

The novel in stylistic terms (dialogism as heteroglossia): 1930 onwards

The novel in plot and narrative terms (Bildungsroman, chronotope, historical time, and contemporaneity): 1937 onwards

Works on Rabelais (popular-festive culture and the novel): 1938 onwards

Speech genres, utterances, and metalinguistics: 1953 onwards

Bibliographical details for collections of Bakhtin's works in English and Russian

Some challenges, stemming from the above

The Concepts and Arguments

Author, Hero, Art, Responsibility

Exposition

Critique

Summary

Dialogism as Polyphony

Dialogism as Heteroglossia

Poetry as the Enemy

The Force of the Novel

Heteroglossia: Novelistic or Everyday?

Summary.

The Bildungsroman and the Chronotope (with a Brief Glance at the Future)

The Novel, Contemporaneity, and the Future

Popular-Festive Culture and the Novel

Is Carnival Progressive?

Just Letting Off Steam?

Collectivity

Speech Genres, Utterances, and Metalinguistics

Chapter 5 Reception

Chapter 6 A Brief Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Oct 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version : Hirschkop, Ken. The Cambridge introduction to Bakhtin

ISBN:

9781009064163

1009064169

9781009064347

1009064347

9781316266236

1316266230

OCLC:

1492999037