...Caryl Emerson As literary critics and language theorists, Viktor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin each utilize “aesthetic distance” in an unconventional way—unrelated, it would seem, to the usual aesthetic criteria of beauty, goodness, or truth. For the Formalist Shklovsky, the distancing...

...Moshe Simon-Shoshan This article presents a new approach to understanding the discourse of the Babylonian Talmud and the ways it generates meaning. This approach is rooted in Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism as explicated in his “Discourse in the Novel” and is based on a reevaluation...

..., and Mikhail Bakhtin explored the complexity of alienation in language and offered proposals for negotiating it in different versions of literariness. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Aarsleff, Hans 1982 From Locke to Saussure: Studies on the Study of Language...

... of Heiberg's aesthetics are discussed and their echoes in Kierkegaard's writing illustrated. Kierkegaard is also aware that Heiberg's schema of genres breaks down in the face of modernity and such modern art forms as the novel. Here Mikhail Bakhtin (a reader of Kierkegaard) can help us see a carnivalistic...

.... The foreword also attempts to resituate Historical Poetics within current debates on “world literature.” In this light it reconsiders the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, suggesting that he performed a flight away from the largely Eurocentric tenor of the Russian Formalists. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics...

...Kate Holland The idea of narrative hybridity was central to the work of the Russian literary theorist Alexander Veselovsky (1838 – 1906), particularly to his unfinished work Historical Poetics . For Veselovsky and the Russian theorists who followed him, including Mikhail Bakhtin and Yuri M. Lotman...

...Ilya Kliger This essay explores the manner in which the persistence of literary forms in history has been addressed by the Russian tradition of Historical Poetics (Alexander Veselovsky, Viktor Zhirmunsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian Formalism) and within a certain strain of Western Marxism (Georg...

... historical vitality in distinct elements revealed by morphological analysis, takes its inspiration from Alexander Veselovsky's theory of motif and Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of architectonics and the chronotope. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 aestheticism philology...

... of Mikhail Bakhtin. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 References Bakhtin Mikhail M. 1981 [1975] “ Discourse in the Novel ,” in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin , edited by Holquist Michael , translated by Emerson Caryl Holquist...

...Joshua Parker While on a conscious level, readers of fiction take for granted that quoted text represents words spoken by characters to other characters in a diegetic story-world, Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on polyphony and Franz Stanzel’s (and, more recently, Wolf Schmid’s) ideas on stylistic...

... defining prosodic forms merely according to the number of syllables or feet in a line toward an investigation of larger units and meta-constructions of prosodic elements where form and ideological content are inseparable. Following Mikhail Bakhtin, the article defines the phenomenon of metrical...

... Sherbert (influenced by Northrup Frye), Mikhail Bakhtin's cultural-historical view of Menippean texts, and the taxonomic work of Eugene Kirk, Joel C. Relihan, and W. Scott Blanchard. The result of our study is a strong indication that Shakespeare's apprehension of the classical tradition was wide and deep...

... Bakhtin's view on the subject, arguing that the way he conceives of the strategies available to the literary author fits the label of “interactive rationality.” Copyright © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 Mikhail Bakhtin Viktor Shklovsky Iurii Tynianov decision science...

...Susan S. Lanser; Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Abstract As a thought experiment, this article conjoins the approaches of two theorists with very different worldviews, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gérard Genette, in the hope of generating a model for a “postclassical chronotope” within the framework of a situated...

...], Bakhtinskie chteniia 1 : 33 -38. Clark, Katerina, and Michael Holquist 1984 Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). Emerson, Caryl 1997 The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Eskin, Michael 2000 Ethics...

... University Press). Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1975 Voprosy literatury i estetiki: issledovaniia raznykh let [Questions of literature and aesthetics: Studies from different years] (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya literatura). 1986 Literaturno-kriticheskie stat'i [Articles in literary criticism], edited by S...

... and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, earning critical acclaim as a pioneer in that field. He took a major part in translating and editing four volumes of Bakhtin’s work, including The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (1981), Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (1986), Art and Answerability: Early Essays...

... of a Writer” and the Traditions of Literary Utopia (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press). Morson, Gary Saul, and Caryl Emerson 1990 Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press). Propp, Vladimir 1984 [1928] “Transformations of the Wondertale,” in Theory...

..., Russian literary criticism (especially Mikhail Bakhtin), and Russian opera and vocal music. Michael Holquist is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Yale University. He is currently working on German and Russian philology in the modern period. Ilya Kliger is assistant professor...

.... This volume is dedicated to the concept of the chronotope, which Mikhail Bakhtin introduced in order to explore the artistic organization of time and space in literature. The ten papers collected here explicate his theory, as developed in the two essays “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel...