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Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work none the less remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format a good selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.
An introductory essay considers the problems of establishing exact authorship within the Bakhtin 'school', and then examines the key ideas and issues Bakhtin pursued throughout his work, with an account of their development and interrelatedness. In particular, his innovative thinking on the productive interaction of consciousness and speech is emphasized and a sense of the 'dialogic' interaction with other current critical and cultural approaches is imparted. The introduction is augmented by a contextualizing commentary accompanying the selected texts and by a glossary of the key terminology.
Readers new to the Bakhtin 'school' will find this book an invaluable introduction to a complex and scattered body of work. Those already familiar with some of the texts will find further material and fresh insights.
An introductory essay considers the problems of establishing exact authorship within the Bakhtin 'school', and then examines the key ideas and issues Bakhtin pursued throughout his work, with an account of their development and interrelatedness. In particular, his innovative thinking on the productive interaction of consciousness and speech is emphasized and a sense of the 'dialogic' interaction with other current critical and cultural approaches is imparted. The introduction is augmented by a contextualizing commentary accompanying the selected texts and by a glossary of the key terminology.
Readers new to the Bakhtin 'school' will find this book an invaluable introduction to a complex and scattered body of work. Those already familiar with some of the texts will find further material and fresh insights.
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Pam Morris is Director of the Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK
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In Bakhtin theory there are two structural processes operating within any literary genre. On one level there is an individual subjectivism that locates and analyses the creative stylistics of the author. On another level an abstract objectivism exists within all language seeking to maintain some degree of consistency through each genre.
With language being composed of grammatical, semantic and syntactic codes an author must conform to those codes for a general acceptance of their work. The author therefore becomes restricted to stylistically and aesthetically working with the rules of language. They find themselves in a far more difficult position to manipulate our conscious understanding of language: "Language stands before the individual as in inviolable, incontestable form" (27). We might consider language today is under attack from mobile and global devices, but in reality it actually confirms the formalist world view. The objective structure of language remains relatively unchanged with only the aesthetic style of language changing.
What The Bakhtin Reader should prove is that language is less about a method of information and understanding, but rather a system of control and manipulation: "It enters our verbal consciousness as a compact and indivisible mass; one must either totally affirm it, or totally reject it. It is indissolubly fused with its authority - with political power, an institution, a person - and it stands and falls together with that authority" (79).
With language being composed of grammatical, semantic and syntactic codes an author must conform to those codes for a general acceptance of their work. The author therefore becomes restricted to stylistically and aesthetically working with the rules of language. They find themselves in a far more difficult position to manipulate our conscious understanding of language: "Language stands before the individual as in inviolable, incontestable form" (27). We might consider language today is under attack from mobile and global devices, but in reality it actually confirms the formalist world view. The objective structure of language remains relatively unchanged with only the aesthetic style of language changing.
What The Bakhtin Reader should prove is that language is less about a method of information and understanding, but rather a system of control and manipulation: "It enters our verbal consciousness as a compact and indivisible mass; one must either totally affirm it, or totally reject it. It is indissolubly fused with its authority - with political power, an institution, a person - and it stands and falls together with that authority" (79).
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