Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries

by David Patterson and David Patterson

""""If Bakhtin is right,"""" Wayne C. Booth has said, """"a very great deal of what we western critics have spent our time on is mistaken, or trivial, or both."""" In Literature and Spirit David Patterson proceeds from the premise that Bakhtin is right. Exploring Bakhtin's notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813160200
• ISBN13: 9780813160207
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher