For literary theory seminar next week we have to read (among other things) a 25 page article by the Russian formalist (I think he's a formalist?), M. M. Bakhtin. It was an article called "Discourse in the Novel" from "The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays" (1972) and translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. As far as I can tell the essay ( Read more... )