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Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry
Donald Wesling
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Hardback. Donald Wesling offers an organized reading of Bakhtin's thought, to achieve an account of why Bakhtin scamped poetry; and an account of how a poetics of utterance is a major achievement, if we employ in the dialogic reading of poetry many of the powerful terms Bakhtin developed for the novel. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
First and last, what moors poetry to society is speech: the speech that gets into writing. So why do most political readings of literature neglect this fundamental orientation? Mikhail Bakhtin never forgets the central role of utterance: his philosophy of literary dialogism is based on the idea of fighting out social issues on the ground of the spoken word. Accordingly, conflict-in-language is the theme of this book's introduction as if it is of the whole volume. In this book, Donald Wesling offers an organized reading of Bakhtin's thought, to achieve an account of why Bakhtin scamped poetry; and an account ... Read more
First and last, what moors poetry to society is speech: the speech that gets into writing. So why do most political readings of literature neglect this fundamental orientation? Mikhail Bakhtin never forgets the central role of utterance: his philosophy of literary dialogism is based on the idea of fighting out social issues on the ground of the spoken word. Accordingly, conflict-in-language is the theme of this book's introduction as if it is of the whole volume. In this book, Donald Wesling offers an organized reading of Bakhtin's thought, to achieve an account of why Bakhtin scamped poetry; and an account ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9780838755402
SKU
V9780838755402
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About Donald Wesling
Donald Wesling is a Professor of English at the University of California, San Diego.
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