John Sturrock, 20 February 1986
Handbook of Russian Literature edited by Victor Terras.
Yale, 558 pp., £25, April 1985, 0 300 03155 6Show More Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time by Roman Jakobson, edited by Krystyna Pomorska and Stephen Rudy.
Blackwell, 208 pp., £25, July 1985, 0 631 14262 2Show More Historic Structures: The Prague School Project 1928-1946 by F.W. Galan.
Croom Helm, 250 pp., £22.50, May 1985, 0 7099 3816 0Show More Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist.
Harvard, 398 pp., £19.95, February 1985, 0 674 57416 8Show More The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics by M.M. Bakhtin and P.M. Medvedev, translated by Albert Wehrle.
Harvard, 191 pp., £7.50, May 1985, 0 674 30921 9Show More Dialogues between Roman Jakobson and Krystyna Pomorska translated by Christian Hubert.
Cambridge, 186 pp., £15, August 1983, 0 521 25113 3Show More The Dialogical Principle by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Wlad Godzich.
Manchester, 132 pp., £25, February 1985, 0 7190 1466 2Show More Rabelais and his World by Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by Hélène Iswolsky.
Indiana, 484 pp., $29.50, August 1984, 0 253 20341 4Show More Show More“... Roman Jakobson and Mikhail Bakhtin agree on so little as theorists of literature that they must count as alternatives. To read one and then the other, preferably Jakobson first and then Bakhtin, as a sort of anti-Jakobson, is a literary theoretical education. Where Jakobson is dry, Bakhtin is convivial; where Jakobson is technocratic, Bakhtin is impulsive; where Jakobson is magisterial, Bakhtin is a groundling ...”