This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevskys studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle.Bakh...
Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of acce...
FOREWORD Krystyna Pomorska PROLOGUE Michael Holquist INTRODUCTION ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais THREE Popular-Festive Forms and Images in Rabelais FOUR Banquet Imagery in Rabelais FIVE The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its Sources SIX Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum SEVEN Rabelais Images and His Time INDEX