The Bakhtin Circle and ancient marrative /

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) has become a name to conjure with. We know this because he is now one of those thinkers everyone already knows-without necessarily having to read much of him! Doesn't everyone now know how polyphony functions, what carnival means, why language is dialogi...

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Other Authors: Branham, Robert Bracht (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Eelde] : Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing ; Groningen University Library, 2005.
Series:Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Genre: theory and practice
  • The poetics of genre: Bakhtin, Menippus, Petronius / R. Bracht Branham
  • Plato's Symposium and Bakhtin's theory of the dialogical character of novelistic discourse / Kevin Corrigan & Elena Glazov-Corrigan
  • Epic, novel, genre: Bakhtin and the question of history / Ahuvia Kahane
  • Genre, aphorism, Herodotus / Gary Saul Morson
  • Rereading Bakhtin on ancient fiction
  • Dialogues in love: Bakhtin and his critics on the Greek novel / Tim Whitmarsh
  • Below the belt: looking into the matter of adventure-time / Jennifer R. Ballengee
  • Bakhtin and Chariton: a revisionist reading / Steven D. Smith
  • The limits of polyphony: Dostoevsky to Petronius / Maria Plaza
  • Centrifugal voices
  • Kristeva's novel: genealogy, genre, and theory / Richard Fletcher
  • Open bodies and closed minds? Persius' Saturae in the light of Bakhtin and Voloshinov / Francesca d'Alessandro Behr
  • Bakhtin and the ideal ruler in 1-2 Chronicles and the Cyropaedia / Christine Mitchell
  • Narrative, responsibility, realism / Francis Dunn.