Christianity in Bakhtin

The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, however, to the Christian dimension of his work. Bakhtin's Silences for the first time fills this important gap. Having established the strong presence of a Christian framework in his early philosophical essays, Ruth Coates explores the way in which Christian motifs, though suppressed, continue to find expression in the work of Bakhtin's period of exile, and re-emerge in texts written during the time of his rehabilitation. Particular attention is paid to the themes of Creation, Fall, Incarnation and Christian love operating within metaphors of silence and exile, concepts which inform Bakhtin's world-view as profoundly as they influence his biography.

First sentence: This book is about Christian motifs in the writings of the philosopher Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975).

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

5

Pages

218

ISBN

9780521572781

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