Bakhtin
Americannoun
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Elsewhere Alsadir engages with notables of decidedly more intellectual bent, including Nietzsche, Sartre, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Mikhail Bakhtin.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
On a busy street during the middle of the day, I was witnessing a grotesque and carnivalesque spectacle like something Mikhail Bakhtin would have written about in "Rabelais and His World."
From Salon ● May 9, 2022
Mikhail Bakhtin, one of my favorite literary theorists, wrote that the novel is the world’s most capacious literary form—the one that can accommodate the most kinds of language, including essayistic, confessional, lyrical, even journalistic discourse.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 16, 2017
“The great Russian formalist critic Bakhtin once pointed out that every genre ends in parody of itself in literary form, and there are ways in which slang also moves toward that parody status,” he says.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2014
We can say wholeheartedly that whatever crime and punishment Bakhtin saw in Dostoyevsky's novels is ubiquitous in China, while at the same time the influence of mass media now wholly permeates people's lives.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2013
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