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Mikhail Bakhtin 1875-1975 - 

Contemporary of Russian Formalist

 

 

 

 

  • utterance - Context, including nonverbal elements, in an integral coponent rather than external to utterance.

  • Artistic form is largely influenced by "extra artistic" reality.

  • "Dialogic Imagination" 1926 - single best book ever written on the novel.  Best book ever written attempting to do what Post Structuralist tried to do.  

  • sociological poetics - views language as both determining and determined by historical components of particular utterances.  It rejects both the formalism that treats texts as static, purely linguistic objects and the fulgar Marxism that would define texts as determined entirely by their creator and reader.

  • Didn't effect West till 60s and 70s.

  • Concerning sociological poetics

  • Russian Formalism - can't analyze literature can only define literary language

  • Post Structuralism not trying to reject structuralism just trying to tweek.

  • "Structeralist Poetics" - good book

  • With each novel/poem we read the greater ability we have to write and for knowledge.

  • Formalism immenent looking into the text

  • Sociaology takes us outside of text - history, etc.

  • Bakhtin was held in Syria because of his views.  He was forced to publish with other names.

  • Formalism emphasis - form own content

  • Marxism tended to ignore form or formalism

  • 3rd dimension - psychology restricts itself to the psychi of the creator and contemplator

  • Biographical studies

  • Psychological readings - discerning impulses of author psych. understanding of the reader.

  • Creator and contemplater

  • Sender - medium - receiver (tends to be unilower

  • Literary criticism Author - text - reader

  • Terms are interchangeable

  • Bahktin calls text hero - Hero (topic) - probably means subject matter

  • Or could also be called rhetoric

  • Discourse in life.  A specific and socially inflected with intination

  • Paralanguage - how you say something rather than what you say

  • Intonation fills the gap in discourse use parallels to arophrase.

  • Without tone of voice we would not be albe to understand intentions of words being said.

  • 3 rhetrical factors that determine how we shape our speech.

    • The common spaical preview

    • The interlockers common knowledge and understanding

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  • Jointly seen - jointly known

  • to be understood

  • Is reflection theory Marxist or Russian? "Art is like a mirror that we hold up to life" from Hamlet by Shakespeare

  • Inadequate thoery

  • Windows 1970s opening a window - not refelctions, not windows

  • What is the nature?  Novels are representation of reality not reflection 

  • Consciously sleected subjective not objective

  • Linguisitc signifers Bahktin wanted to make it more represenative of history.

  • All discourse is sociaoligical.  It is a tool for sharing our response with other people.

  • Language use bound up with value judgements.

  • Paralanguage

  • I love you

  • Depending on how you say it, you could mean oppposote of what is says.  Paralanguage prvides insight social contenxt helps to show meaning

  • Comedy-Any narrative that ends in marriage.  Bring people togethe, tpically mena dn women.

  • Tragedy - story of great man having flaws or deflects of charcater - 

  • Tragic comedy  - finds humor in characters that are trajic.

  • Comedy - undercuts importance of main character.

  • rhythm -

  • Bakhtin prose and language int he novel "Marxism the Diologic Ingeneration" Universe of Language.  His theories Russian Formalists were his contempories.  were formed i political environement.  His work was neglected and overlooked until the 60 and 70s.

  • He tried to place formalism with historism.

  • Be mroe attentive to socialism on one hand and on the other langauge.

  • Marxism that prevailed in earlier years.  We'll call it historicism is different than Western Marxism.  Bakhtin wanted to synthesize all thoughts.  

  • Rhetorical thoery of art - jointly seen - jointly known - jointly understood

  • Part-time, place and _____ always outside of literature

  • Ideologica struggle and ______ 

  • Social existence outside of language

  • Bakhtin - the individual speech act or parole.

  • Use utterance instead of parole.

  • Bakhtin spent many years in Syria for being a ____ thinker.

  • Utterance - literary text is a time of parole.

  • Utterance can only be understood with social reality.  If you tke it out of context it doesn't make sense.  Shared experience.

  • Utterance - rejoinder or reponse to a previouse response - dialouge.

  • Crucial point of contact between language and social form _______.  Always bound by past.

  • Dialouge is critical - Each word is a little areana.  The meaning of a word entirely by its context.  there are as many uses of a word as there are contexts.

  • Ideaologically collequy (conversation) or dialouge of large scale.

  • It repsonde, objects, affirms, etc. to something.

  • Multi-vocal and polyphonic.

  • Linguisitc zones

  • Interact with one antoher

  • Cause each other to come alive.

  • Dialouges of different languages

  • Novel - many different languages conte together - legal discourse, medical terminoloy, etc.

  • It's not merely a neutral tool, but language specifically points of view on the world

  • World views

  • Theoretically informed way

  • As a result of the work done, there are now new quotes and ofrm.  Language has been compeltely taken over.  Each word tastes of the contest and context.

  • Heteroglassia - points out to us the presence of other languages.  Example Huck Finn afflueant people speak differently than Jim the slave.

  • Ideology - social asumptions

  • Helenic period for 1t prose.  Precisely the working of langauge for dialouge - literary texts images of languages.

  • Discourse lives as it were, beyond iteslef.

  • If we detach ourselves all we have is the naked word.  Less is langauge.   If we detach ourselves all we have is the naked word.  Go otusdide the novel.  The internal social diotmism.

  • Concreate reverberates

  • Sociaological poetics - reader response - How the reader is affected.

  • Hetoroglossia - different speechness - different types of speech within the same language - like legal talk, young generation talk "selfies", etc.  Can refer to simple differences such as word use and sentence construction.  Helps to make the dialouge more realistic.   This helps to show different characters in a story.

  • This will lead to poloyphonic - different voice.

  • Dialogic - first person introspective novels - you talking to yourself and a form or part of yourself is another talker.

  • chronotope - time and space in a novel.  Reinforces common coneptions of a genre.  For example romance, but have two romantially involved characters with some sort of progression either brining them together or apart.

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