People from Oryol Oblast - People from Oryol, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ivan Fomin, Denis Menchov, Gennady Zyuganov, Nikolai Leskov, Slava Polunin (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Oryol, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ivan Fomin, Denis Menchov, Gennady Zyuganov, Nikolai Leskov, Slava Polunin, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Anna Petrovna Kern, Voldemar Aussem, Nikolay Mikhailovich Volkov, Sergei Gennadyevich Kuznetsov, Vladimir Glebov, Denis Boytsov, Boris Zaytsev, Nikolai Dolgov, Pyotr Nemov, Aleksandr Stavpets, Stanislav Lebamba, Filipp Yegorov, Grigorij Mesenikov, Ilya Starinov. Excerpt: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Russian:, pronounced ) (November 17, 1895, Oryol March 7, 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in Soviet Russia in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s. Bakhtin had a difficult life and career and few of his works were published in an authoritative form during his lifetime. As a result, there is substantial disagreement over matters which are normally taken for granted: what discipline he worked in (was he a philosopher or literary critic?), how to periodize his work, and even what texts he wrote (see below). He is known for a series of concepts, which have been used and adapted in a number of disciplines: dialogism, the carnivalesque, the chronotope, heteroglossia and "outsidedness" (the English translation of a Russian term vnenakhodimost, sometimes rendered into English from Fr... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=578014