Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries-Fast Shipping

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Title: Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries

Author: David Patterson

ISBN: 9780813160207

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

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Publisher : “”””If Bakhtin is right,”””” Wayne C. Booth has said, “”””a very great deal of what we western critics have spent our time on is mistaken, or trivial, or both.”””” In Literature and Spirit David Patterson proceeds from the premise that Bakhtin is right. Exploring Bakhtin’s notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a