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Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin by Patricia McNitt Spross; art by Doug McNitt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin about?

Literature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the "nothingness of personality," as Borges put it. Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by one of the most influential literary theorists of the last Mikhail Bakhtin. He finds in Bakhtin a personalism based on the idea of an ongoing dialogue between authors and their heroes in imaginative literature. Such a model of inter-personality, Reed argues, allows us to appreciate the rich possibilities of personhood set forth in the earlier nineteenth-century period of Romanticism. Elaborating a new general theory and providing close readings of classic works of Romantic poetry and fiction, Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin offers a better understanding of the preoccupation with the individual, creative self that lay at the heart of this revolutionary literature that still speaks to readers today.

Who reads Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin?

Author

Patricia McNitt Spross; art by Doug McNitt

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9781623568092

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Music, Romance