Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

M. M. Bakhtin (Author), Vern W. McGee (Translated by), Caryl Emerson (Edited by), Michael Holquist (Edited by)

9780292775602

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1987

208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.

• Note on Translation
• Introduction by Michael Holquist
• Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff
• The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel)
• The Problem of Speech Genres
• The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis
• From Notes Made in 1970-71
• Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences
• Index