It begins with a familiar Formalist complaint: that literary scholars, dazzled by Dostoevsky’s contributions to theology, moral philosophy, psychology and Russian nationalism, have failed to appreciate his even greater contribution to literary art. Mikhail Bakhtin's "Problems of Dostoevsky's Creation" (1929), renamed "Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics" in the second, considerably revised and enlarged edition in 1963 1 is rightly considered one of the most stimulating and original books of the enormous literature on Dostoevsky. In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1984), Bakhtin refers to polyphony as a new kind of artistic thinking because what he has in mind goes against the grain of …
For Fyodor Dostoevsky, ways of seeing reflect ways of thinking about the world. BAKHTIN’S VIEW OF DOSTOEVSKY: “POLYPHONY” AND “CARNIVALESQUE René Wellek, Princeton University. DIALOGISM AND POLYPHONY . translated by Alberto Toscano . by Maurizio Lazzarato . In the latest addition to his A-Z of Theory series, political theorist Andrew Robinson introduces, in a two-part essay, the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most important theorists of discourse in the twentieth century. This dissertation complements Mikhail Bakhtin’s analyses of Dostoevsky’s poetics by taking a visual-aesthetic approach and exploring “visual polyphony,” a concept that Bakhtin used but did not develop at length. of Mikhail Bakhtin: POLYPHONY, DIALOGISM, DOSTOEVSKY 1997 Let us recall the basic theses of Bakhtin’s book on Dostoevsky.

Due to the Soviet repression that persecuted him from the end of the twenties onwards, his work remains poorly known. Polyphony is a literary concept, analogous with musical polyphony, developed by Mikhail Bakhtin on the basis of his analyses of Dostoevsky's works. Russian linguist and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin used this word, literally meaning many voiced to describe literary writing that managed to liberate the voice of its characters from under the domination of the authorial or narratorial voice. In part one, Robinson introduces Bakhtin's notions of Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia. Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most important and most original philosophers of the twentieth century. In Mikhail Bakhtin Bakhtin further developed this theory of polyphony, or “dialogics,” in Voprosy literatury i estetiki (1975; The Dialogic Imagination ), in which he postulated that, rather than being static, language evolves dynamically and is affected by and affects the culture that produces and uses it. Key Theories of Mikhail Bakhtin By Nasrullah Mambrol on January 24, 2018 • ( 4) Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895–1975) is increasingly being recognized as one of the major literary theorists of the twentieth century.