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
The great philosopher of festivity and carnival, the Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, called them “second worlds”.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2018
As we know, the novel as a genre originally came into being by “hacking” and rearranging the codes that existed, producing what the literary theorist Bakhtin describes as a heteroglossia, or conflict of voices.
From Slate • Jun. 21, 2018
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
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