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

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

Bakhtin and Benjamin's assessments of literature are obviously tied to the context of their lives: when Bakhtin was studying Dostoyevsky's novels and emphasising the individual, he had just returned from exile imposed by Stalin.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013