Bakhtin and Cultural Theory: Second Edition

An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin's contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst
others. New articles explore the origins, previously unacknowledged, of Bakhtin's theory of language and provide a vivid account of the dramatic scandal surrounding Bakhtin's thesis on Rabelais. Contains dramatic new material, drawn from post-perestroika sources, which demythologizes the image of
this important writer. A new bibliographical essay and introduction bring the English-language reader up-to-date with the progress of Bakhtin studies in Russia.


Author: Ken Hirschkop
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 06/28/2001
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.84w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780719049903

About the Author

Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester

David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield