This collection of late essays is essential for any student of Bakhtin in order to achieve a fuller understanding of the totality of his work.
While the essays are varied, ranging from a discussion of the Bildungsroman & Goethe's sense of time to questions of approaching text from a foundation of cultural dialog, perhaps the most important essay here is the one lending its name to the title.
Describing as never before Bakhtin's sense of speech genre as a post-Formalist critique of speech as monad, it is a crucial essay in understanding Bakhtin's entire paradigm of dialogic communication.
Along with his earlier works, this collection of essays is a must for any student of linguistics, semantics, semiotics, literature, or any particular school of philosophy.
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