In such diverse fields as semiotics, literary theory, social theory, linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, Mikhail Bakhtin's importance is increasingly recognized. His posthumous fame comes in striking contrast to his obscurity during his lifetime (1895-1975), much of it spent as a semi-invalid[...]

Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overri[...]

Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin's literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin's her[...]

Mikhail M. Bakhtin er en af det 20. århundredes mest visionære tænkere inden for kulturanalyse og litteraturteori. Med oversættelsen af »Tidens og kronopotens former i romanen - essay om historisk poetik« foreligger et af hans hovedværker for første gang på dansk. Bogen br[...]

I dette utvalget vil tre skrifter - ett om Rabelais og latterens historie, og to om Dostojevskijs poetikk - dekke de viktigste begrepene i Bakhtins tenkning: karnevalisme og latter, dialogisme og polyfoni. Dessuten blir begrepet kronotop belyst i introduksjonsessayet av Audun Johannes Mørch. I Rabe[...]