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From: Slavic Review[(essay date autumn 1993) In the following essay, Morson discusses Bakhtin's fascination with indeterminism and his concept of "open time" in narrative.] We live forward, but we understand backward.--Kierkegaard...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMikhail Bakhtin's chronotope theory that space and time are intrinsically connected in novels can also be applied to paintings and, though Bakhtin used the theory for literary history, it also involves literary meaning....
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1 In her mordant activist sonnet "An Answer," published in the Independent in 1887, Rosamund Marriott Watson turned against her most admired poetical father, Algernon Charles Swinburne, for his conservative views on...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1934-35, in his long essay "Discourse in the Novel," Russian theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin declared that the natural and healthy state of language, which is a changing, socially stratified, multivocal clatter...
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From:Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn light of continuing global issues including the prevalence of various levels and forms of inequality and increased environmental destruction, there is a growing recognition of the limitations, epistemological,...
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From: Human Architecture[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Fontaine offers a reading of the collection informed by the work of theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. He argues that Rivera’s Chicano characters “are participating in the same project:...
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From: Face to Face: Bakhtin in Russia and the West[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Adlam discusses the ways in which Bakhtin's concepts of carnival, double-voicing, heteroglossia, and polyphony have been employed in feminist literary criticism, arguing that...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn analysis of Tom Leonard's 'Unrelated Incident' and Linton Kwesi Johnson's 'It dread inna Inglan,' based on Mikhail Bakhtin's philosophy of social heteroglossia, reveals the power of dialect in forming cultural...
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From:New Literary History (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMikhail Kuzmich Ryklin is a Russian critic and philosopher of culture whose essay 'Bodies of Terror' comments on Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin's book 'Rabelais and His World.' Ryklin was born in 1948, obtained his Ph.D....
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From: Connotations[(essay date 04) In the following essay, Bevilacqua explores The Great Gatsby’s affinity with “carnival as a sense of the world and as a form of artistic visualization” and explores the use of symbolic inversions in the...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHuman perception is most commonly shaped by the ostensibly 'concrete' nature of things, that is, by their existence at specific moments of time and in particular locations in space. In spite of longstanding...
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From: The Novelness of Bakhtin: Perspectives and Possibilities[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Holquist explores the relationship between the sacred and the profane in Bakhtin's theory of the novel.] "The life which that has no knowledge of the air it breathes is a...
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From:Melville Society Extracts (Issue 128) Peer-ReviewedThe becoming-orthodox of sociological and historical approaches to literary studies in the last fifteen to twenty years has, among other things, reordered the pantheon of literary-theoretical figures, among whom Mikhail...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe classical connection between theories of carnival and carnivalesque art in the late 19th and 20th century and the intoxication inherent to the facts of social life are discussed. Analysis of the theorized works of...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 4, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe present paper aims at investigating the effectiveness of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad in displaying the transcription of language according to the critical views of Mikhail Bakhtin, especially his view about...
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From:Mythlore (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe essay reveals the nature of time and space in Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings with the help of the chronotope concept proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin's classification of spatiotemporal relations in the...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 141, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Epic of Gilgamesh is a story full of thresholds, liminal spaces, and times of transition. This essay investigates the representation of time and space in Gilgamesh, employing Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the...
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From: Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Armendariz argues that Bierce, in his short fiction, calls into question the possibility of a truly realistic use of language.] Language, n. The music with which we charm the...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIf the term "ethical" means the attitude open to every being in the world without exclusion, a literary work is "ethical" so long as it expresses that attitude and so is a literary criticism that appreciates and...
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From:Journal of European Studies (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMy topic today is the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895--1975) and the contours of his posthumous life. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed an explosion of interest in Bakhtin, a thinker who hitherto had been almost...