Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry
Author | : Donald Wesling |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 0838755402 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780838755402 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "This book rescues Bakhtin from his overstatements concerning poetry, and gives the theoretical and practical basis for reading poems with the help of Bakhtin's categories of utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogue. In addition, through this rescue, the book offers a modest but strong foundation for a reading of poetry, and indeed of all literary texts, where a clash of social positions is fought out on the territory of the utterance. To find a believable poetics of social forms is the order of the day, and Donald Wesling's admiring and yet skeptical revision of Bakhtin will be part of the explanation we need."--Jacket.