Autorentext
Simon Dentith is Reader in English at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.

Klappentext

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
Offers a collection of writings by Bakhtin, Voloshinov and Medvedev. This collection includes extracts from all the major areas of their work, and makes accessible to the student and teacher pieces of writing previously difficult to locate.

Inhalt
Preface Part I An overview of the writings of Bakhtin and his circle Introduction 1 Voloshinov and Bakhtin on language 2 Bakhtin on the novel 3 Bakhtin's carnival 4 Bakhtin and contemporary criticism, Notes to Part I Part II Extracts from the writings of Bakhtin and his circle 5 V.N. Voloshinov: 'Language, speech, and utterance' and 'Verbal interaction' 6 M.M. Bakhtin and P.N. Medvedev: from 'Material and device as components of the poetic construction' 7 M.M. Bakhtin: 'The hero's monologic discourse and narrational discourse in Dostoevsky's short novels' 8 M.M. Bakhtin: 'Heteroglossia in the novel' 9 M.M. Bakhtin: from 'The grotesque image of the body and its sources', Notes to Part II