{"product_id":"first-hundred-years-of-mikhail-bakhtin","title":"First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin","description":"Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. In this candid assessment of his place in Russian and Western thought, Caryl Emerson brings to light what might be unfamiliar to the non-Russian reader: Bakhtin's foundational ideas, forged in the early revolutionary years, yet hardly altered in his lifetime. With the collapse of the Soviet system, a truer sense of Bakhtin's contribution may now be judged in the context of its origins and its contemporary Russian \"reclamation.\" A foremost Bakhtin authority, Caryl Emerson mines extensive Russian sources to explore Bakhtin's reception in Russia, from his earliest publication in 1929 until his death, and his posthumous rediscovery.\nAfter a reception-history of Bakhtin's published work, she examines the role of his ideas in the post-Stalinist revival of the Russian literary profession, concentrating on the most provocative rethinkings of three major concepts in his world: dialogue and polyphony; carnival; and \"outsideness,\" a position Bakhtin considered essential to both ethics and aesthetics. Finally, she speculates on the future of Bakhtin's method, which was much more than a tool of criticism: it will \"tell you how to teach, write, live, talk, think.\"","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228682178904,"sku":"9780691050492","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780691050492_9bb4c0a8-c8b2-4686-8f4c-e153a1579239.jpg?v=1765282545","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/first-hundred-years-of-mikhail-bakhtin","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}