{"product_id":"romantic-literature-in-light-of-bakhtin","title":"Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the \"nothingness of personality,\" as Borges put it.  Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by  one of the most influential literary theorists of the last century: Mikhail Bakhtin. He finds in Bakhtin a personalism based on the idea of an ongoing dialogue \u003ci\u003ebetween \u003c\/i\u003eauthors and their heroes in imaginative literature.  Such a model of inter-personality, Reed argues, allows us to appreciate the rich possibilities of personhood set forth in the earlier nineteenth-century period of Romanticism.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElaborating a new general theory and providing close readings of classic works of Romantic poetry and fiction, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Literature in Light of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBakhtin \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a better understanding of the preoccupation with the individual, creative self that lay at the heart of this revolutionary literature that still speaks to readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32097873330259,"sku":"","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781623561116.jpg?v=1777992324","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/romantic-literature-in-light-of-bakhtin","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}