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Introducing Bakhtin

By Sue Vice

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0719043271, 9780719043277
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9651465 bytes)
Pages
240\264
Time added
2021-04-05 14:29:57

Description

The Russian critic and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin is once again in favor, his influence spreading across many discourses including literature, film, cultural and gender studies. This book provides the most comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin’s central concepts and terms. Sue Vice illustrates what is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism and heteroglossia. These concepts are then placed in a contemporary context by drawing out the implications of Bakhtin’s writings, for current issues such as feminism and sexuality. Vice’s examples are always practically based on specific texts such as the film Thelma and Louise, Helen Zahavi’s Dirty Weekend and James Kelman's How late it was, how late.

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