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 | | Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Ruth Coates ISBN-10: 9780521572781 ISBN-10: 0-521-57278-9 ISBN-13: 9780521572781 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57278-1 Hardcover 1999-02-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin, paying particular attention to the motifs of God the Creator, the Fall, the Incarnation and Christian love. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective, and introduces the reader to a vitally important but hitherto ignored aspect of his work. In this context Ruth Coates presents readings of Bakhtin very different from those of Marxist and Structuralist critics. | ||
Book Description This book examines the influence of Christianity on the thought and work of the great Russian theorist Mikhael Bakhtin, paying particular attention to the motifs of God the Creator, the Fall, the Incarnation and Christian love. This is the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective, and introduces the reader to a vitally important but hitherto ignored aspect of his work. In this context Ruth Coates presents readings of Bakhtin very different from those of Marxist and Structuralist critics. | ||
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Great for Beginners and Specialists Even if you're not completley up to speed on the ideas of the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin, this book offers a good introduction and overview of his work while also looking at the larger theological implications in his writings. Recommended highly for others who are trying to tie together the various threads of postmodernism in contemporary Christian theology. | ||
Read before reviewing I'm not sure how Mr. Kowal can review a book, much less give it three stars, without having read it. His complaint that this book is not the only book to deal with Christianity in Bakhtin could have been eliminated had he read Coates' work. At the time her book went to press "Corporeal Worlds" had not been published. In a footnote on page 177, she mentions "Corporeal Worlds" and acknowledges that, from what she has heard, Mihailovic's view of Bakhtin seems to be similar to her own. She goes on to write that she was unable to obtain a copy before submitting her manuscript to the publisher. Of course, one would have to read it in order to know this information. As for the book itself, it is a clear, well-written work that adds to the growing Bakhtin literature here in the west. Coates has explored a much neglected and important aspect of Bakhtin's work. The fact that she was unable to read the at-that-time unpublished "Corporeal Worlds" is hardly a criticism. (Just because a copyright date is one year earlier doesn't mean that the work was available at the time the more recent book had to go to press.) | ||
an observation I have not read Christianity in Bakhtin, but the advertising blurb that represents it as "the first full-length work to approach Bakhtin from a religious perspective" might be overstating the case. Another book, Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse, by Alexandar Mihailovic (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory, Northwestern, 1997), has already addressed some of the same ideas suggested by the title of the other book. | ||