Mikhail Bakhtin by Graham Pechey - 9780415424196

Mikhail BakhtinThe Word in the World\nAuthor(s): Graham Pechey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415424196, 978-0415424196\nSynopsis\nMikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts both literary and cultural and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines.\n\nIn this book, Graham Pechey offers a commentary on Bakhtins texts in all their complex and allusive textuality, keeping a sense throughout of the historical setting in which they were written and of his own interpretation of and response to them. Examining Bakhtins relationship to Russian Formalism and Soviet Marxism, Pechey focuses on two major interests: the influence of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.