Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries

""""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 to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a

Author: David Patterson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780813160207

About the Author

David Patterson, assistant professor of Russian at Oklahoma State University, is the author of The Affirming Flame: Religion, Language, Literature.

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