Mikhail Bakhtin

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Contents 1 Biography 2 Notable Works 3 Further Readings 4 Other Scholarly Views 4.1 Agreement 4.2 Opposition 5 References 6 External Links

Biography

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian literary theorist and philosopher of language. He was born into a noble family in Russia, and his father and grandfather owned and managed state banks. Few of his works were published during his lifetime. Most of his writing focused on Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, and religious criticism.

Notable Works

Books

Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity (Avtor i geroi v esteticheskoi deiatel´nosti) 1924-7

Problems of Dostoyevsky's Art (Problemy poetiki Dostoevskogo)

Freudianism a Critical Sketch (Freidizm: Kriticheskii ocherk)

Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Marksizm i filosofia iazyka) 1929

Rabelais and His World

The Dialogic Imagination

The work of François Rabelais and the Culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Tvorchestvo Fransua Rable i narodnaia kul´tura srednevekov´ia i renessansa)

Toward a Philosophy of the Act

Articles/Essays

Bakhtin, Mikhail "Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences"

"Art and Answerability" (“Iskusstvo i otvetstvennost´”) 1919

"The Problem of Content, Material and Form in Verbal Artistic Creation" (“Problema soderzheniia i formy v slovesnom khudozhestvennom tvorchestve”) 1924

Further Readings

Other Scholarly Views

Agreement

Those authors that agree with Bakhtin.

Opposition

Those authors that disagree with Bakhtin.

References

• Brandist, Craig. "Bakhtin Circle, The [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. University of Sheffield, 15 July 2005. Web. 07 May 2011. For website, click here.
• Zappen, James P. "Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)" Twentieth-Century Rhetoric and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. Ed. Michael G. Moran and Michelle Ballif. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. 7-20. For the electronic version, click here.

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