WEEK SIX: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
Monday, February 10
- V. N. Voloshinov, "Critique of Sausserian Linguistics," The Bakhtin
Reader, ed. Pam Morris (London: Edward Arnold, 1994): 25-37.
- V. N. Voloshinov, "Language as Dialogic Interaction," The Bakhtin
Reader: 48-61.
- M. M. Bakhtin, "Social Heteroglossia," The Bakhtin Reader: 73-80.
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses to Bakhtin, click here.
Wednesday, February 12
- Leo Tolstoy, "Three Deaths" (handout)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment: Part One, chapter four;
Part Three, chapter four. (handouts)
- M. M. Bakhtin, "Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel," The Bakhtin Reader:
89-96.
- M. M. Bakhtin, "The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image," The Bakhtin
Reader: 97-102.
- M. M. Bakhtin, "The Heteroglot Novel," The Bakhtin Reader: 112-20.
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses to Bakhtin, click here.
Friday, February 14
- Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel: Book II, Prologue; and
Book IV, chapters 6-8. (handouts)
- M. M. Bakhtin, "Folk Humor and Carnival Laughter," The Bakhtin Reader:
194-206.
- M. M. Bakhtin, "Carnival Ambivalence," The Bakhtin Reader: 206-26.
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses to Bakhtin, click here.
WHAT NEXT?
revised October 1, 1997
mail to Tim Spurgin