The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin

by Caryl Emerson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069105049X
• ISBN13: 9780691050492
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"