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Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the de…
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culture · Russian philosopher and literary theorist (1895–1975) · philosopher · linguist · writer · literary critic · literary historian · literary scholar · art theorist · philologist · also Mikhail Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, Bakhtin
Born 5 November 1895 · Died 7 March 1975 · Q185375
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1975· 1 entry
Died 1975-03-07.
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1963· 2 entries
Roman Jakobson mentioned him as one of the few intelligent critics of Formalism
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But it was only after his death in 1975 that authors such as Julia Kristeva and Tzvetan Todorov brought Bakhtin to the attention of the Francophone world, and from there his popularity in the United States, the United Ki
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1961· 1 entry
Bakhtin's deteriorating health forced him to retire, and in 1969, in search of medical attention, he moved back to Moscow, where he lived until his death in 1975
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1957· 1 entry
The Institute changed from a teachers' college to a university, Bakhtin became head of the Department of Russian and World Literature
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1946· 1 entry
And 1949, the defense of this dissertation divided the scholars of Moscow into two groups: those official opponents guiding the defense, who accepted the original and unorthodox manuscript, and those other professors who
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1940· 2 entries
“From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse”
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And until the end of World War II, Bakhtin lived in Moscow, where he submitted a dissertation on François Rabelais to the Gorky Institute of World Literature to obtain a postgraduate title, although the dissertation coul
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1938· 1 entry
Bakhtin's health improved and he became more prolific
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1937· 2 entries
Bakhtin moved to Savelovo, across the river from Kimry, a town located one hundred kilometers from Moscow
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“Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel”
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1936· 2 entries
Living in Saransk, he became an obscure figure in a provincial college, dropping out of view and teaching only occasionally
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Moved to Saransk (then in Mordovian ASSR, now the Republic of Mordovia), where Bakhtin taught at the Mordovian Pedagogical Institute
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1929· 2 entries
"Problems of Dostoevsky's Art", Bakhtin's first major work, was published
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But was revised and extended in 1963 under the new title
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1924· 1 entry
Bakhtin moved to Leningrad, where he assumed a position at the Historical Institute and provided consulting services for the State Publishing House
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1923· 1 entry
Bakhtin was diagnosed with osteomyelitis, a bone disease that ultimately led to amputation of a leg in 1938
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1921· 1 entry
That Bakhtin married Elena Aleksandrovna Okolovič
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1919· 1 entry
A short section of this work was published and given the title "Art and Responsibility"
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1913· 1 entry
Joined the historical and philological faculty at the local university (the Odessa University)
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-11-05.
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