The Double Invention of Komo (Signed First Edition)

Jay Wright

ISBN 10: 0292715277 / ISBN 13: 9780292715271

Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, 1981

About this Item

First printing. A fine copy (but for light fading on covers and very faint soiling on lower edge). A clean, unmarked copy. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. This copy has been SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated by Wright to McClatchy ("Sandy") on the title page, as pictured. ASSOCIATION copy.

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-443

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Double Invention of Komo (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292715277
• ISBN 13: 9780292715271
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • Association Copies
  • Signed Poetry

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Synopsis

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology.

Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.

Language Notes

Text: English, Russian (translation)