Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author

by Ruth Coates

Book Overview

The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, however, to the Christian dimension of his work. Christianity in Bakhtin for the first time fills this important gap. Having established the strong presence of a Christian framework in his early philosophical essays, Ruth Coates explores the way in which Christian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521022975
• ISBN13: 9780521022972
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"