Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History
By (Author) Prof. M. Keith Booker
By (author) Dubravka Juraga
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
28th February 1995
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary theory
Political ideologies and movements
891.73409
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
539g
Description
Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Bakhtin's ideas are then placed in dialogic relation to the works of several important writers of modern Russian fiction, including Vassily Aksyonov, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Andrei Bitov, and Sasha Sokolov.
Reviews
In this important book Booker and Juraga challenge the irony of Bakhtin's critical legacy. The authors cast a new light on the fact that Bakhtin is largely misunderstood in the West: they explain that Bakhtin's ideas have evolved in the historical context of Russia. General and academic audiences, upper-division undergraduate and above.-Choice
"In this important book Booker and Juraga challenge the irony of Bakhtin's critical legacy. The authors cast a new light on the fact that Bakhtin is largely misunderstood in the West: they explain that Bakhtin's ideas have evolved in the historical context of Russia. General and academic audiences, upper-division undergraduate and above."-Choice
Author Bio
M. KEITH BOOKER is Associate Professor of English and director of Graduate Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has published numerous articles on literature and literary theory and is the author of several books, including The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature and Dystopian Literature, both published by Greenwood Press in 1994. DUBRAVKA JURAGA is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Arkansas. A former Fulbright Scholar from Yugoslavia, she has published numerous translations and articles on literature and culture in both the United States and Europe.
