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Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin

Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin Contemporary literature

Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin

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Literature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the "nothingness of personality," as Borges put it. Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by one of the most influential literary theorists of the last century: Mikhail Bakhtin. He finds in Bakhtin a personalism based on the idea of an ongoing dialogue between authors and their heroes in imaginative literature. Such a model of inter-personality, Reed argues, allows us to appreciate the rich possibilities of personhood set forth in the earlier nineteenth-century period of Romanticism. Elaborating a new general theory and providing close readings of classic works of Romantic poetry and fiction, Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin offers a better understanding of the preoccupation with the individual, creative self that lay at the heart of this revolutionary literature that still speaks to readers today.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2014-04-24
Publication Date:
2014-04-24
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1623563461
ISBN13:
9781623563462
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[email protected]
Weight:
399 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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