Dialogue and Critical Discourse: Language, Culture, Critical Theory by Michael M

Description: Dialogue and Critical Discourse by Michael Macovski A collection of previously unpublished essays, which consider the relationship between spoken language and written text in light of the thought of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin. The work demonstrates the importance of Bakhtins theory of dialogic meaning for a wide range of textual problems. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This interdisciplinary volume of collected, mostly unpublished essays demonstrates how Mikhail Bakhtins theory of dialogic meaning--and its subsequent elaborations--have influenced a wide range of critical discourses. With essays by Michael Holquist, Jerome J. McGann, John Searle, Deborah Tannen, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Shirley Brice Heath, Don H. Bialostosky, Paul Friedrich, Timothy Austin, John Farrell, Rachel May, and Michael Macovski, the collectionexplores dialogue not only as an exchange among intratextual voices, but as an extratextual interplay of historical influences, oral forms, and cultural heuristics as well. Such approaches extend theimplications of dialogue beyond the boundaries of literary theory, to anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and cultural studies. The essays address such issues as the establishment and exercise of political power, the relation between conversational and literary discourse, the historical development of the essay, and the idea of literature as social action. Taken together, the essays argue for a redefinition of literary meaning--one that is communal, interactive, and vocatively created. Theydemonstrate that literary meaning is not rendered by a single narrator, nor even by a solitary author--but is incrementally exchanged and constructed. Author Biography Michael Macovski is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic Discourse (OUP, 1994), as well as articles on Emily Brontë, Lord Byron, and the history of publishing. Review "The pentad of items in the title covers many bases, and so is at once impressive and defensive....Every paper in the collection will be of interest to one kind of reader or another...a valuable addition to discourse and Bakhtin studies."--Social Semiotics"Dialogue and Critical Discourse succeeds...at developing its own dialogue among its eclectic voices."--The Wordsworth Circle Long Description This interdisciplinary volume of collected, mostly unpublished essays demonstrates how Mikhail Bakhtins theory of dialogic meaning--and its subsequent elaborations--have influenced a wide range of critical discourses. With essays by Michael Holquist, Jerome J. McGann, John Searle, Deborah Tannen, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Shirley Brice Heath, Don H. Bialostosky, Paul Friedrich, Timothy Austin, John Farrell, Rachel May, and Michael Macovski, the collectionexplores dialogue not only as an exchange among intratextual voices, but as an extratextual interplay of historical influences, oral forms, and cultural heuristics as well. Such approaches extend the implications of dialogue beyond the boundaries of literary theory, to anthropology, philosophy,linguistics, and cultural studies. The essays address such issues as the establishment and exercise of political power, the relation between conversational and literary discourse, the historical development of the essay, and the idea of literature as social action. Taken together, the essays argue for a redefinition of literary meaning--one that is communal, interactive, and vocatively created. They demonstrate that literary meaning is not rendered by a single narrator, nor even by a solitaryauthor--but is incrementally exchanged and constructed. Review Text "The pentad of items in the title covers many bases, and so is at once impressive and defensive....Every paper in the collection will be of interest to one kind of reader or another...a valuable addition to discourse and Bakhtin studies."--Social Semiotics"Dialogue and Critical Discourse succeeds...at developing its own dialogue among its eclectic voices."--The Wordsworth Circle Review Quote "The pentad of items in the title covers many bases, and so is at onceimpressive and defensive....Every paper in the collection will be of interest toone kind of reader or another...a valuable addition to discourse and Bakhtinstudies."--Social Semiotics Details ISBN0195070631 Short Title DIALOGUE & CRITICAL DISCOURSE Language English ISBN-10 0195070631 ISBN-13 9780195070637 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 1997 Subtitle Language, Culture, Critical Theory Author Michael Macovski Illustrations black & white illustrations Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195070637 UK Release Date 1997-10-30 AU Release Date 1997-10-30 NZ Release Date 1997-10-30 US Release Date 1997-10-30 Edited by Michael Macovski Birth 1945 Affiliation Associate Professor of English, Fordham University Position Associate Professor of English Qualifications MD. 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