(P/B) DIALOGIC IMAGINATION

Παρουσίαση

Here in English translation are four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. Bakhtin claims for the novel vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as a force, "novelness." He examines the difficulty of arriving at a generic definition of the novel and attempts a classification of novelistic works based on the philosophic attitude toward time and space that each presumes. Finally, Bakhtin discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems made up of subgenres, dialects, and almost infinitely fragmented "languages" in battle with one another. (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation
Introduction
Epic and Novel
From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse
Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel
Discourse in the Novel
Glossary
Index