The dialogic imagination: four essays: Bakhtin, M. M.
The Dialogic Imagination is a collection of four essays on the novel and its origin, arranged from more accessible to much more dense. The first essay, “Epic and Novel,” teases out the characteristics of the novel which distinguish it from the epic and from other genres of literature.THE DIALOGIC IMAGINATION Four Essays by M. M. BAKHTIN Edited by fichael Holquist Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich. The dialogic imagination. (University of Texas Press Slavic series; no. I) Translation of.Influenced by Bakhtin’s theory, the following paper presents an intervention case-study in teaching argumentation conducted in a group of twenty four 12-year old students of a Greek primary school. Data has been gathered from class recordings of role playing games, dialogic interactions as well as from written argumentative texts.
The first of The Dialogic Imagination’s four essays, “Epic and Novel,” was written in 1941 and first published in 1970 (and in expanded form in the 1975 collection).These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975.
The dialogic imagination: four essays. These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.
