Bakhtin and Theatre

Bakhtin and Theatre
Title Bakhtin and Theatre PDF eBook
Author Dick Mccaw
Publisher Routledge
Pages 444
Release 2015-07-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1317486587

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What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That is ‘stopped being a serious genre’ after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality, visuality, and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice? Bakhtin and Theatre is the first book to explore the relation between Bakhtin’s ideas and the theatre practice of his time. In that time, Stanislavsky co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and continued to develop his ideas about theatre until his death in 1938. Stanislavsky’s pupil Meyerhold embraced the Russian Revolution and created some stunningly revolutionary productions in the 1920s, breaking with the realism of his former teacher. Less than twenty years after Stanislavsky’s death and Meyerhold’s assassination, a young student called Grotowski was studying in Moscow, soon to break the mould with his Poor Theatre. All three directors challenged the prevailing notion of theatre, drawing on, disagreeing with and challenging each other’s ideas. Bakhtin’s early writings about action, character and authorship provide a revealing framework for understanding this dialogue between these three masters of Twentieth Century theatre.

Bakhtin : Carnival and Other Subjects

Bakhtin : Carnival and Other Subjects
Title Bakhtin : Carnival and Other Subjects PDF eBook
Author David G. Shepherd
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 368
Release 1993
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9789051834505

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Rabelais and His World

Rabelais and His World
Title Rabelais and His World PDF eBook
Author Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 520
Release 1984
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780253203410

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This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

Jonson Versus Bakhtin

Jonson Versus Bakhtin
Title Jonson Versus Bakhtin PDF eBook
Author Rocco Coronato
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 282
Release 2003
Genre Drama
ISBN 9789042011748

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Contents: 1. Carnival of sorts. - 2. Sejanus plays antics. - 3. Catiline's spoiled party. - 4. 'A silent woman' is hard to find. - 5. Fair time for pigs and kings. - 6. A well-timed carnival. - 7. Potted Gods and poets. - 8. The island of Mardigras.

Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)

Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)
Title Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook
Author Michael D. Bristol
Publisher Routledge
Pages 218
Release 2014-03-18
Genre History
ISBN 1317748301

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In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the Annales school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.

Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology

Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology
Title Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology PDF eBook
Author Slav N. Gratchev
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 385
Release 2020-07-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1498582702

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Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin’s heritage. This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtinin a variety of disciplines.To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen scholars from eight countries have come together, and each has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. Bakhtin’s work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.

The Dialogic Imagination

The Dialogic Imagination
Title The Dialogic Imagination PDF eBook
Author M. M. Bakhtin
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 660
Release 2010-03-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0292782861

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These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.