The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin

In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented 'languages' in battle with one another. There will be referred to two of Bakhtins books, Problems of Dostoevskys Poetics (1984) and The Dialogic Imagination (1981). Bakhtin described the open-ended dialogue as 'the single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life'. Bakhtin) is a book on the nature and development of novelistic prose, comprising four essays by the twentieth century Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, 'novelness,' which he discusses in 'From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse.' Two essays, 'Epic and Novel' and 'Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel,' deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. The Dialogic Imagination (full title: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin 4.16 Rating details 3,500 ratings 91 reviews These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. Bakhtin uses the category 'novel' in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. The Dialogic Imagination, by philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, is a compilation of four essays that were first published separately and then later put together and published in. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975.

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.

The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin