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Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries
""""If Bakhtin is right,"""" Wayne C. Booth has said, """"a very great deal of what we western critics have spent our time on is mistaken, or trivial, or both."""" In Literature and Spirit David Patterson proceeds from the premise that Bakhtin is right. Exploring Bakhtin's notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a
Book Details
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: Jul 15th, 2014
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.41in - 0.51lb
- EAN: 9780813160207
- Categories: • Russian & Soviet• Semiotics & Theory
About the Author
Patterson, David: - David Patterson, assistant professor of Russian at Oklahoma State University, is the author of The Affirming Flame: Religion, Language, Literature.
Praise for this book
"Patterson has had access to important untranslated texts from Bakhtin's earliest period. From this perspective he is able to see what others, reading a partial Bakhtin, have not seen: that Bakhtin is a rather conservative thinker, more a 'philosopher of life' with roots in the pre-Romantics than a Marxist or a semiotician in twentieth-century parlance." -- Philosophy and Literature