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Mikhail Bakhtin. 1895-1975. Overview. Biography Theory Application. Biography. Born Orel, Russia 1895 Educated Novorossia University University of St. Petersburg Graduated 1918 Bakhtin Circle Voloshinov Medvekov. Biography. 1929 Problems of Dostoevsky’s Art Arrested and exiled
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Mikhail Bakhtin 1895-1975
Overview • Biography • Theory • Application
Biography • Born • Orel, Russia 1895 • Educated • Novorossia University • University of St. Petersburg • Graduated 1918 • BakhtinCircle • Voloshinov • Medvekov
Biography • 1929 • Problems of Dostoevsky’s Art • Arrested and exiled • 1935 • Discourse in the Novel • 1936 • Mordovia Pedagological Institute • 1937 • Forms of Time and of the Chronotrope in the Novel • 1940 • Rabelais and His Work
Biography • 1941 • Epic and Novel • 1953 • Death of Stalin • 1963 • Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics • 1966 • Rabelais and His World • 1971 • Conference on Bakhtin’s work • 1975
Literary Theory • Structure of Language vs. Language Use • Elements of Dialogue • Speaker • Listener/Respondent • Relation between the two • Monologue • Single Person/Entity • Dialogic • Fictional Prose • Monologic • Poetry
Literary Theory • Heteroglossia • Collection of all the forms of social speech • Centripetal vs. Centrifugal • Poetic language vs. Novelistic language • Carnavalesque • Subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominate style
Second Language Learning • Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning: New Perspectives • Pedagogical Strategies • Language as a living tool • Locates learning in social interaction
Bibliography • "Bakhtin, Mikhail: Introduction." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper. Vol. 83. Gale Cengage, 1994. eNotes.com. 2006. 2 Feb, 2009. <http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/bakhtin-mikhail> • “Mikhail Bakhtin.” textetc.com. C. John Holcombe, 2007. <http://www.textetc.com/theory/bakhtin.html> • “Contemporary Critical Theory.” Timothy Spurgin, 1997. <http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/handouts/bak1.html> • “Mikhail Bakhtin.” Mary Klages, PhD, 2001. <http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/bakhtin.html>