Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry

by Donald Wesling

First and last, what moors poetry to society is speech: the speech that gets into writing. So why do most political readings of literature neglect this fundamental orientation? Mikhail Bakhtin never forgets the central role of utterance: his philosophy of literary dialogism is based on the idea of fighting out social issues on the ground of the spoken word. Accordingly, conflict-in-language is the theme of this book's introduction as if it is of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838755402
• ISBN13: 9780838755402
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"