Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics by M. M Bakhtin ISBN: 0-88233-041-1 Publisher: Ardis Pub. Date: 1973 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A defense of the open text
Comment: Bakhtin's "Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics" remains an essential critical writing to understand the complex and eclectic critical imagery of Bakhtin. The plurality of consciousness within a novel (polyphony) together with the idea of simultaneity in the relationships among characters confine to this work an extremely contemporary view of what literary creation is like or must be conceived of.
Bakhtin's defense of the independency of the hero from the author stands not only as a strong critique to those critical trends which regard biographical information as the only source to fully capture the essence of a literary work, but also it enables a new kind of open criticism which embraces the role of the reader in the process of authoring a text, that is, providing the text with a meaning. Bakhtin's interest on physiology to capture the real insight of human perception and, hence, of human understanding of a literary work is, in my opinion, a great advance for the reader to become an undisputed element in the literary chain formed by the author, the text and the reader.
Bakhtin's work has rapidly become a cornerstone in the current flow of literary criticism and his "Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics" stands as one of his finest achievements.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intense Revelations
Comment: Bakhtin's critique of Dostoevsky's work has revealed so much more to me about the form of this great author's novels than I would have ever been able to understand for myself. What makes Bakhtin such a masterful theorist is his methodical approach to understanding an author's work discussing the historical influence of form and the critical misinterpretations that have preceded the work. He is so attentive to levels of narration that he is able to identify voices in relation to the author and the other characters. This helps to clarify the structure of the narrative and the many ways we can interpret it. Many people have marvelled at the brilliance of Doestoevsky's work but haven't been able to put their finger on why it is so great. Bahktin not only names the reason, but also gives an incredible amount of thorough evidence as to why this is so in a comprehensible way. The technical theory is easy to understand as he is very careful to define his terms and the reasons he uses them. His survey of the development of literary forms, particularly the carnavelesque is informed and inspiring, but be careful as it is slightly idealistic and, though perfectly relevant, you feel that he is assimilating it a little too easy to his critique of Doestoevsky. The narrative techniques he identifies are not only useful in understanding Doestoevskys work but are incredibly useful in thinking about current authors. This is a very important piece of critical work I have come back to again and again.
Rating: 5
Summary: absolutely great
Comment: Bakhtin's seminal work owes a lot to thinkers like Nietzsche, buy by gum, does he stand on his own. The most brilliant exposition I've read on Dostoevsky (with Rozanov in second place) and perhaps the most perceptive and insightful comments on the literary process and theory this century.
 |
Title: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson ISBN: 029271534X Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.44 |
 |
Title: Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series, No 8) by M.M. Bakhtin ISBN: 0292775601 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
 |
Title: Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin ISBN: 0253203414 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
 |
Title: Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson ISBN: 0804718229 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
 |
Title: Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark, Michael Holquist ISBN: 0674574176 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
