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Towards a New Material Aesthetics

Bakhtin, Genre and the Fates of Literary Theory

Alastair Renfrew author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:12th Dec '06

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Set in the context of the various materialist approaches to literary aesthetics that emerged in the twentieth century, Renfrew's study presents a new synthesis of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and his circle, Russian Formalism, and elements of the 'official' ideology of the early Soviet period. The book's central aim in offering such a synthesis is to negotiate the poles of postmodernist subjectivism and 'traditional' materialism around which much current literary and critical theory has stagnated, and, as the title suggests, to point the way towards a newly conceived material basis for textual and literary analysis.

ISBN: 9781900755948

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 640g

218 pages