Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics

M. M. Bakhtin

Original title: Problemy poėtiki Dostoevskogo

first published 1963 Ardis, 1973 249 pages

Literatur als Kunst

This book is the ideal introduction to the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin is becoming established as one of the giants of 20th century literary criticsm, despite his work being unknown in the West until the 1970's. This book is less about Dostoyevsky per se, rather a profound meditation on how Dostoyevsky's art exemplifies the central concern of Bakhtin, the concept of 'dialogism'. This idea defies a simple defi...

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Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics edition · 1984 · University of Minnesota Press · 333 pages
Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics edition · 1973 · Ardis · 249 pages
Probleme der Poetik Dostoevskijs edition · 1971 · Carl Hanser Verlag · 320 pages

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