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Summary
Summary
Occupying a still evolving but clearly established place in twentieth-century intellectual history, the great Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin is best characterized as philosopher of dialogue or human communication. Within Bakhtin's rich body of thought are numerous insights that promise fruition in fields that include linguistics and semiotics, literary theory and poetics. From their linked perspectives The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin approaches its subject, concentrating on problems of language and literature.
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Danow (University of California, Riverside) presents yet another contribution to the growing literature on Mikhail Bakhtin (1895--1975), the influential Russian literary critic and philosopher of language. Danow concisely surveys the fundamental Bakhtinian concepts of ^D["the word,^D]" the novel, and Self and Other, before turning to Bakhtin's intellectual ties to the Prague and Moscow-Tartu (Lotman) schools of linguistic thought. Although Danow succeeds in providing some clarification of Bakhtin's notoriously diffuse thought, the general reader will find Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist's elegant Mikhail Bakhtin (CH, Apr'85) a better introduction. The specialist may prefer Allan Reid's Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman (1990), although Danow's exposition is more lucid; Reid's bibliography is much better than Danow's, which is restricted to items written in or translated into English. Recommended for advanced students of 20th-century literary theory.
Table of Contents
| Bakhtin and His Circle |
| The Word |
| The Novel |
| Self and Other |
| The Prague School |
| The Moscow-Tartu School |
| Dialogic Poetics |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
