In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and ...

The novel’s pertinent and lesser-known aspects were impeccably articulated by literary theorist, philosopher, social thinker ...

the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel. The core of this book is the life story of a manuscript codex, British Library Royal MS 13 ...

Many critics argued that the Orange happenings displayed Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the ‘therapeutic force of laughter’. Through various elements of street theatre and absurd street painting ...

引言为期三个月的科隆狂欢节于每年11月11日在科隆开幕，随后遍及莱茵河畔的主要德国城市，直至次年2月上旬长达几个小时的“玫瑰星期一花车游行”（Rosenmontagszüge）达到高潮。“狂欢节”本起源于基督教大斋节前的放纵，喻指与“虔诚”对立的罪恶 ...

This is consolidated by our two research centres, the Bakhtin Centre, which focuses on the history of cultural theory, with particular reference to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and the intellectuals ...

Those concerning the rich intellectual life of which she was part – besides Shostakovich, she was friends with the philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin and poet Boris Pasternak. Those concerning her crippling ...

Carnivals have been a source of horror for a very long time. Whether you learned that from Mikhail Bakhtin, the original Care Bears movie, or any other number of works and critics, the idea of a ...

Between 2007 and 2011, I was Head of the School of English. Research interests I am influenced by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and my research background is in the work of Malcolm Lowry. My ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

Mr. Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor at Northwestern University, has written numerous books on Russian authors. His latest book, co-authored with Morton Schapiro, is Minds Wide Shut: How ...

the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel. Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture XXVIII, ISBN 978-1-50151-849-2 (hardback), ...