Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin | |
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Bakhtin in 1920 | |
| Born | Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 Oryol, Russian Empire |
| Died | 7 March 1975 (aged 79) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Odessa University (no degree) Petrograd Imperial University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Russian philosophy |
| Institutions | Mordovian Pedagogical Institute |
| Main interests | literary theory, literary criticism |
| Notable ideas | Heteroglossia, dialogism, chronotope, carnivalesque, polyphony |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (/ˈbɑːxtɪn/;[2] Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin]; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1895 – 7 March[3] 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.
- ^ Y. Mazour-Matusevich (2009), Nietzsche's Influence on Bakhtin's Aesthetics of Grotesque Realism, CLCWeb 11:2
- ^ "Bakhtin". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins.
- ^ Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics, Stanford University Press, 1990, p. xiv.