Towards a New Material Aesthetics

"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 po...