Bakhtin

American  

[bahk-teen, bahkh-, buhkh-teen] / bɑkˈtin, bɑx-, bʌxˈtin /

noun

1. Mikhail Mikhailovich 1895–1975, Russian literary critic and theorist and linguistic philosopher.

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Example Sentences

“Karan writes with such nuanced attention to what the critic Mikhail Bakhtin calls ‘addressivity’ — the idea that the style of any communication is deeply influenced not just by who’s speaking but by who’s listening,” she says “I often ask myself some version of ‘What would Karan do?’ when I’m trying to deal with the complexity of addressivity — and its relationship to colonialism and capitalism — in my own work.”

From Los Angeles Times

While his influences included everything from “Huckleberry Finn” to the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of images of grotesque reality, little of this erudition called attention to itself in his fiction.

From New York Times

Elsewhere Alsadir engages with notables of decidedly more intellectual bent, including Nietzsche, Sartre, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Mikhail Bakhtin.

From Washington Post

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

Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian cultural critic and literary theorist, popularised the notion of the carnivalesque – a concept that became well-known in his country in the 1960s and much later in the West.

From Salon