The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin - Caryl Emerson - Bog

Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. This title examines the role of his ideas in the post-Stalinist revival of the Russian literary profession.