Towards a New Material Aesthetics

Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-900755-94-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet period. The book's central aim in offering such a synthesis is to negotiate the poles of postmodernist subjectivism and 'traditional' materialism around which much current literary and critical theory has stagnated, and, as the title suggests, to point the way towards a newly conceived material basis for textual and literary analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renfrew, Alastair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Between the Lines in the Soviet 1920s 1 The Problem of Material 2 Bakhtin and Dostoevsky beyond Formalism 3 The Problem of Material and the Problem of Genre 4 Representation and the Two Lines of Genre Theory in Bakhtin 5 A Neo-Idealist Theory of Genre 6 Speech Genres and Literary Genres, Conclusion: The Fates of Literary Theory

Über Autor(innen)

Renfrew, Alastair