Literature and spirit : essays on Bakhtin and his contemporaries /

""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 Bak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patterson, David, 1948-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky [2015]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt130jbwv
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Bakhtin and Foucault: Laughter, Madness, Literature
  • Chapter 2. Bakhtin, Berdyaev, and Gide: Dostoevsky's Poetics of Spirit
  • Chapter 3. Bakhtin and Lacan: Author, Hero, and the Language of the Self
  • Chapter 4. Bakhtin and Levinas: Signification, Responsibility, Spirit
  • Chapter 5. Bakhtin and Heidegger: Word and Being
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index.