Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark
As Bakhtins writings have appeared in translation, Bakhtin has been hailed in disparate circles for his contributions to linguistic, psychoanalytic, and social theory. Here, the authors endeavor to give us the complete life and the complete works of this complex and multifaceted figure.
All future studies of Bakhtin will start hereClark and Holquist succeed in portraying a man of immense versatility all of whose ideas nevertheless cohere around a central set of concerns which are fundamental to the thought of this century. The philosophical substance of the book is beautifully enmeshed with the biographical. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
This book…is the indispensable guide. It undertakes not only to explicate all of the major works, but also to set them in historical perspective (which requires a daunting breadth of erudition)… We have finally reached the core of Bakhtin’s thought, his ideas about language and literature and their implications for human life in general; and it is a consistently absorbing intellectual adventure. * The New Republic *
The authors have produced a brilliant combination of literary biography, intellectual history, and scholarly detection. -- Hayden White
Clark and Holquist have transformed our understanding of Bakhtin… This is an indispensable book. -- Stephen J. Greenblatt
This book…is the indispensable guide. It undertakes not only to explicate all of the major works, but also to set them in historical perspective (which requires a daunting breadth of erudition)… We have finally reached the core of Bakhtin’s thought, his ideas about language and literature and their implications for human life in general; and it is a consistently absorbing intellectual adventure. * The New Republic *
The authors have produced a brilliant combination of literary biography, intellectual history, and scholarly detection. -- Hayden White
Clark and Holquist have transformed our understanding of Bakhtin… This is an indispensable book. -- Stephen J. Greenblatt
Katerina Clark was B. E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her books include Eurasia without Borders; Moscow, the Fourth Rome; Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution; and, with Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674574175 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674574176 |
| Title | Mikhail Bakhtin |
| Author | Katerina Clark |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1986-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 398 |
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