Bakhtin Between East and West

"Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) has had an enormous influence on literary studies and cultural theory. Bakhtin between East and West: Cross-Cultural Transmission looks beyond the concepts of carnival and dialogue and traces for the first time the transformation of the Bakhtin Circle''s thought from its introduction to the West in Julia Kristeva''s seminal late-1960s theory of intertextuality, t...