This study analyzes why Mikhailovsky - a leading Russian socialist philosopher and literary critic of the mid-19th century - expressed the most insightful, proto-Bakhtinian views on Dostoevsky's writings. It examines the social and cultural context, specifically in the political climate of Mikhailovsky's journal Otechestvennye Zapiski , the most popular magazine of its time. Russian socialist and populist literary criticism remains terra incognita outside Russia, and stereotypical perceptions of it as obtuse, boring, and appropriated by socialist realism has prevented scholars from focusing on the literary and ideological values of it. However, the roots of modern Russian thought and self-identity took their shape under the direct influence of such social thinkers as Mikhailovsky. Examining the proto-Bakhtinian traits of Mikhailovsky's criticism of Dostoevsky shows the cultural and historical pretext of Bakhtin's discoveries.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN-10
0773475826
ISBN-13
9780773475823
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105654518
Product Key Features
Author
Marina Kanevskaya
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
01/05/2001
Place of Publication
New York
Series Part/Volume Number
V. 17
Series Title
Studies in Slavic Languages & Literature
Content Note
Bibliography, Index
Country of Publication
United States
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