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  After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism (Paperback) By (author) David Lodge

  

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  Short Description for After BakhtinA study of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, whose ideas are coming under increasing scrutiny in the West. Lodge explores his work on the dialogic nature of language, the typology of fictional discourse, and the carnivalesque, with reference to writers from Austen to Kundera.
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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Published: 21 June 1990
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Theory
  • ISBN 13: 9780415050388 ISBN 10: 0415050383

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Full description for After Bakhtin

• Now widely regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, the Russian writer Mikhail Bakhtin was silenced by political censorship and persecution for most of his life. In "After Bakhtin", David Lodge sketches Bakhtin's extraordinary career, and explores the relevance of his ideas - on the dialogic nature of language, on the typology of fictional discourse, and on the carnivalesque - to the writings of authors as diverse as George Eliot, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Fay Weldon and Martin Amis. Further essays study particular texts - by Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling and Milan Kundera - illustrative of the development of the novel in its classic, modernist and postmodernist phases. Two final essays reflect on the current state of academic criticism.